"The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.
But
a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police
officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in
Scotland, where 98 percent of the country’s officers do not carry guns.
For them, calming a situation through talk, rather than escalating it
with weapons, is an essential policing tool, and one that brought a
delegation of top American police officials to this town 30 miles
northeast of Glasgow."
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