Concealed weapon Badge

concealed carry badge display if involved in shooting

  • Bad idea

    Votes: 165 70.5%

  • Good idea

    Votes: 4 1.7%

  • would make no differnce, waste of time

    Votes: 65 27.8%
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    234
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I thought you got them in a box of sugar corn flakes.
Didn't know that people paid money for them.
I have heard of bicyclists putting the word "POLITE" on the back of their jerseys in block letters, hoping they would get more respect from drivers. Our eyes see what we are expecting to see.

73,
Rick
 
biku324 said:
Anyone wanting to carry a badge needs to be a cop. Or UNIFORMED security. To me and YMMV, someone who carries a gun and wants to wear a badge is making it clear that they want trouble or unearned prestige.

I don't carry my retirement badge or ID. I also just pay my traffic tickets and tell the officer who writes those, "Thank you" without telling him/her how important I used to be.
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I would bet that 99% of NYPD cops carry duplicate shields. They were referred to as “dupes”. This way your real shield stayed on your uniform and wasn’t in danger of being lost and the cop getting a 30 day rip. So I still have my dupe, but it sits in a safe and will never be carried.

I do carry my ID card that is stamped Retired. I keep it behind my license. When I am pulled over (very rarely) I say nothing and hand the ID card over with my paperwork. Cops have discretion when writing and there is no reason not to give a break to a brother or sister officer. It has never failed to get me out of a ticket. By the way, I gave breaks to teachers, firefighters, doctors and nurses, and correctional officers, not to mention a big majority of people I pulled over. I made my quota with the real lowlifes, not another civil servant hustling to get to work.
 
I also keep my retired ID card in my wallet w/my LEOSA certification but have never shown it to anyone, not even the cop that pinched me for speeding. I was on the way to a family funeral and she took pity on me, just a warning. My retired badge sits in a safe to pass down to my kids one day.
 
So I just gotta ask...

When you are in a shooting situation as a civilian, exactly WHEN do you have the time to take that foolish badge out of your pocket and display it? When the police arrive, do you want them to see you also fishing around in your pockets at the same time?

If for some unfortunate reason I find myself holding a gun in public, my other hand sure won't be busy trying to pull a meaningless badge out of my pocket...
 
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If a concealed weapons badge was a recognized means of identification for a CWP holder to show to the police, that would be one thing. But I personally have never heard of any place that does that, so it's really kind of useless.
I don't carry my retired badge either, just my ID. For one thing, it's an unusual shape that's not used in this state (Denver PD) so I think it would be more confusing than helpful. Even though I could get another, I'd rather not take the chance of loss or damage, so I leave it home.
 

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Cool! I've been licensed to carry for seven years, but I've had my badge for seventy years. I think I'll start carrying it now. Everyone will be so impressed!

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And after I've had it for eighty years, I can upgrade it to a Senior Ranger Badge.
 

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I would bet that 99% of NYPD cops carry duplicate shields. They were referred to as “dupes”. This way your real shield stayed on your uniform and wasn’t in danger of being lost and the cop getting a 30 day rip. So I still have my dupe, but it sits in a safe and will never be carried.

I do carry my ID card that is stamped Retired. I keep it behind my license. When I am pulled over (very rarely) I say nothing and hand the ID card over with my paperwork. Cops have discretion when writing and there is no reason not to give a break to a brother or sister officer. It has never failed to get me out of a ticket. By the way, I gave breaks to teachers, firefighters, doctors and nurses, and correctional officers, not to mention a big majority of people I pulled over. I made my quota with the real lowlifes, not another civil servant hustling to get to work.
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NYPD and LAPD for example don't issue officers additional badges and it is against agency policy for an officer to private order one last I checked. Where I've worked. You get issued two badges and you can private order your own too.
 
Miami_JBT said:
NYPD and LAPD for example don't issue officers additional badges and it is against agency policy for an officer to private order one last I checked. Where I've worked. You get issued two badges and you can private order your own too.
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It is against policy, but everybody does it. Bosses, too. The places that make them get around it by making them ever so slightly smaller. Not enough for the human eye to pick up. When you retire or get promoted so you get a new shield, you have to hand in the shield. You place it in a mold to verify it is the right one.
 
If anyone presented a concealed carry badge to me I would try not to laugh in front of them. What I would do is share the moment with my guys during the following roll call. We'd watch the video and have a good laugh about it.

That's what a concealed carry badge is good for.
 
Couple posters in another current thread opined that A: They had one, and 2: It was a good idea. OP was involved in that discussion, hence the hullaballoo . . .

Smoke said:
This topic has been discussed multiple times on this forum. I'm not aware of anyone ever saying it was a good idea. How many times are we going to have this discussion?
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I look at those folks as Cop wannabee's, Possers!!!!!

I knew a guy who failed out of the Police Academy and he would still dress like a Cop and carried one of them stupid badges.

Same with Tactical Tommy who couldn't cut it in the Army or the USMC but, wears BDU's, ACU's, DCU's, MultiCam everyday and collects military stuff.
 
Want to carry a badge? No problem, follow these simple steps:
1 - fill out application
2 - take written exam
3 - take physical exam
4 - submit personal integrity form
5 - submit to background investigation
6 - take polygraph
7 - take medical exam
8 - take psych exam
9 - get interviewed
10 - receive job offer, if you made it this far
11 - 18 weeks of academy training
12 - graduation day, here's your badge...and good luck, your going to need it

If your not willing to follow these simple steps, then leave the badges to those that are and the kids.
 
Borderboss said:
Absolutely! I'm always amazed at the number of "what caliber for bear" threads. How many people really encounter bears, or are in a position to encounter them, that it's such a big deal?

Rant over.
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Probably more than someone that needs two pistols and spare mags just to walk to the mail box, but there are more of those types here than people worried about bears.
 
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