To the LEO's:

[Charlie_K]

The problem isn't the officers who frequent here and respond to the question openly. It's all the others who won't say what they'd do because they don't want to admit that they'll do whatever they please because they've got a shiny magical talisman that elevates them above all others and converts them to demi-gods who can run rampant and murder without legal repercussion, who are the problem. The ones that give all other cops a bad name and breed so much distrust. There's no screening process to separate the power hungry from those that simply wane to make a difference in the world.

 

[I.N.F.K]

Wouldn't the OP questions fall under a LEO's discretion, which they are permitted to use under a certain criteria.

 

[S.Alexander]

To any BFC members who are LEO's, i've always wondered something. Have you ever seen someone with a knife on them, and it was a "gravity knife" (decided by if it can flick open or not), have you confiscated it?
Or have you ever said "Oh what the hell, i'm a knife guy, obviously this guy is too", and let hm be?

What i'm trying to say is, tell me whether or not you've ever not confiscated a knife simply because you yourself were a knife guy.

Most normal people who carry knives, or are "knife guys" wouldn't even have an encounter with a police officer. If a cop is searching your pockets and finds a gravity knife for instance, there has got to be a reason. Either you were arrested or detained for something, and the cop had reason to check your pockets.

If I somehow came across a guy with a gravity knife, and he wasn't arrested for anything, wasn't being a threat, and wasn't carrying the knife for the reason of assaulting someone, I would not arrest him or take the knife. I would merely advise him to tighten up the pins on his knife.