Robert Hairless made the impression that having a badge when you're not really a cop, will piss the cop off at you once the scene cools down and he finds out that your badge is just a CCW badge and not a real police officer's badge.
I don't think that Robert Hairless made any such impression. I know him very well and I can't imagine him making any such thing. Maybe you misunderstood?
Seems to me that Mr. Hairless reported something suggested by a legendary New York City cop with decades of experience, someone who was widely respected by a great many knowledgeable and experienced law enforcement officers, who had carved out a second career training other law enforcement officers and had become famous and respected for that too. I don't know if he had an Internet screen name, though.
Jim Cirillo was killed in an automobile accident in July 2007, and he was a pretty sharp guy so he probably knew about cell phones. Somebody must have at least mentioned them to him at some time. He probably also knew a little about how cops behave when they arrive at a shooting scene. Somebody could have told him when he was teaching at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and many other places. I'd bet Jim Cirillo knew something about cops, if only from watching gangster movies, and maybe he thought about his advice before putting it on DVD for sale throughout the world by one of the major publishers in this field, Paladin Press. Could be that the publisher had some experience too and looked at the video before he had it edited and put on that DVD.
I was hesitant about raising Jim Cirillo's suggestion but decided to take the chance in case it might get some interesting responses from thoughtful people. I wasn't disappointed by the responses it got.
Since there's a remote possibility that one or two otherwise knowledgable people have never heard of Jim Cirillo,
here's a very brief piece about him just after he died. At least some people in this forum were fortunate enough to have known and trained with him. I'd hoped to be one of them but waited too long.
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I'm not sure which lines you were reading between, because the ones I was reading pretty much said that Bald Bobby got that idea clearly. Me, in fact, too.
Yup. You're okay. Interesting suggestion, wasn't it? I'm still thinking about it.