D.C. to Arm Police with Assault Rifles; Officers Seek 'Stopping Power'
Byline: David C. Lipscomb, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Metropolitan Police Department has joined other major U.S. cities in arming patrol officers with assault rifles to protect them against criminals with high-powered weapons, weeks after being released from a federal program that monitors the use of excessive force.
"We want to be as accurate as possible and have more stopping power," Assistant Chief Patrick Burke said yesterday.
The department already has 500 semiautomatic AR-15 rifles, which were converted from fully automatic rifles, and has trained 340 officers to use them.
Chief Burke said the weapons will go in service after the department …
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Article title: D.C. to Arm Police with Assault Rifles; Officers Seek 'Stopping Power'.
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Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC).
Publication date: May 8, 2008.
Page number: A01.
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