Police rifles
Frequently I read a story and wonder how much of an idiot the author is to have written such an article.
A great case in point: You are a small police department and have ordered AR15 rifles for all of your officers. The rifles come in on time, but the locking devices that go into the cars to hold these rifles are back-ordered or delayed. Rather than keep the rifles from the officers you instruct them to lock them in their trunks and hope no one is the wiser.
Then along comes an idiot “journalist” (and I use the term VERY loosely here) and writes an article titled Police rifles won’t be secured.
The idiot may as well have put a posting on Craig’s List - “Hey all you crooks! If you want a free assault rifles break into parked squad cars from Small Town PD!”.
Is the author is trying to influence the PD in question from actually issuing these rifles through making this public and therefore unsafe for the PD to continue with their plans? Probably, and while I can agree the PD’s plan isn’t necessarily a good one encouraging risk to the general public by telling crooks where to acquire arms is worse.