The city department removed all the shot guns from the cruisers because while searching a yard for a suspect the one officer came around the corner of the house, startled the other officer who shot him almost at point blank range.
The local paper ran with it as a terrible thing and how dangerous LE work is, officer killed in the line of duty. While to was a terrible tragedy the true story is an untrained officer panicked and shot his partner.
This was 30 years ago before cops became an off shoot of the military with all the body armor and toys. He may of survived now and I am sure they have all their weapons back in the cars, SUV's armored patrol vehicles...............