Posted Aug 2, 2019, 2:41 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: New York
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Originally Posted by Baronvonellis
OK, I guess in NYC police walk around with machine guns. That must be due to the unique terrorist threat after 9/11, probably not as much due to general gun violence and crime. I've never seen that in any other US city that I can think of, I've never seen it in Chicago or Miami.
That's your opinion, most people in France, Italy, and Spain seem fine with National Guards in cities and it is common in most big cities there.
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No, NYPD never patrols ordinary neighborhoods with machine guns. It's only the NYPD Counterterrorism unit that carries machine guns.
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