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This is what a real police department does:

• In the aftermath of the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has come out with guns blazing - with a plan to get all 1,000 rookie cops ready to use heavy artillery in time for New Year's Eve, The Post has learned.
• The NYPD wants all 1,000 Police Academy recruits trained to use M4 automatic machine guns - which are now carried only by the 400 cops in its elite Emergency Service Unit - in time for the holiday celebration in Times Square.
• In the carnage in the city formerly known as Bombay, 10 terrorists carrying automatic rifles and grenades attacked a railway station, a market, a restaurant popular with foreigners, two luxury hotels and a Jewish center.
• At least 195 people were killed and 295 wounded. The dead included 18 foreigners, among them six Americans.

Ten terrorists. Ten terrorists brought Mumbai to a standstill for almost three days and left a body count on the order of 19 to 1, 49 to 1 if you include the wounded. And we still don't have a single rifle or shotgun deployed on the street aside from SWAT, maybe a two-man Detective team if we're lucky.

As noted here and elsewhere, we aren't carrying the rifles from the station and running them to an incident. We're hoping to respond rapidly and in force within minutes of an attack. And that just isn't going to happen under current policy, training or leadership. Black rifles are scary - Shortshanks says so.