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Originally Posted by muerteverde
What about a baton or nightstick? Do you carry those where you work? Would you feel comfortable using that to defend against a knife if you had it in your hand when forced into aknife situation? Do you carry a knife specifically for your job? I know that KA-Bar has a whole line of law enforcement knives that can be pulled out quickly and have a bent blade to aid in knife retention.
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I do carry a baton and a ASP ( Collapsable baton). To answer your question about being forced to use them against a knife. Yes I feel fairly confident but that is based off of my martial arts training (29 years). I would not want to go baton against knife but given the scenerio of no other choice I would do what I have to do. I teach Police tactics and have a website
www.KibunInc.com
The reason cops go one up in the use of force is that the law allows us to. The bottom line is that I want to go home to my family at night. I am of course not looking to get into a knife fight but my job requires me to confront people who are armed. I have been in many confrontations in which a person has fought with the Police (I work in a tough area), and most of the people when I see them a week later they apologize and say they were drunk or having a bad day. For this reason (along with many others) if we do not have to escalate the use of force to the point of using a gun we try not to.
I carry a decent knife made by Beaver Creek. There are better knives out there but everytime I spend $100 or more on a knife I lose it.
