I have been carrying one for years...(well okay, it's a pre-Camillus BK&T) in my kit bag while on patrol. Only been used a few times. Once to pry a bent fender off a tire so the nice lady could drive away from a minor accident, and another to smash a window on a search warrant entry, and slashed a low hanging cable company wire on a county road to avoid "clotheslining" an unwitting motorcyclist.