(LAPD) Cops use suppressors?

[BSA1]

Those bright gold colored patch and badge the officers are wearing on their left breast make a nice target for a sniper as they are covering the heart.

 

[Dnaltrop]

Good way to reduce Workmen's comp / Disability claims for hearing loss.

 

[Jenrick]

HorseSoldier: Could be agency policy that a department rifle may not be modified, or has to use iron sights. Law Enforcement has never let progress interfere with tradition.

BSA1: As far as big gigantic super shiny badges, double the last sentence above. I've for a long time thought that using a cloth badge with one angle luminescence would be a much smarter idea.

-Jenrick

 

[-v-]

Could be that the guy simply (gasp!) prefers irons over optics...