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It's not painted as a casing, more like an exceptionally extended body. It rather looks like a tracer projectile body. I suspect somebody searched for 5.56mm projectile references and picked the tracer at random.

The crimp mark is quite far up though, rather than on the major diameter.

Basically every episode of Columbo. The mystery isn't the crime, but how he's going to solve it.

I acknowledged that in the comment.

Judging by other top level comments, it seems many people do indeed simply accept it as something that actually happened.

I'm sure some cops somewhere still do that, but I can't remember the last time I saw a uniformed patrol officer not using some kind of retention holster. Even the old fashion leather holsters had thumbsnaps every time I've seen them for the kind of role.

Just like the fake story gets repeatedly posted.

The number was, in fact, zero. (The story is made up. It circulates around every so often with the same mugshot that came from a real, but very different case.)

A duty holster will have a retention lock of some kind, usually a thumblock or button. Thats what you'd expect a uniformed patrol officer to use on a belt kit. A detective or some other LEO that wears more business casual clothes or formal clothes will more likely to have a holster without a retention, but they aren't normally making traffic stops.

Not really worth a deep dive since the story is made up in the first place.

What does that have to do with a retention holster design?

Also, yes, fake story. Mugshot is clipped from a real and very different case.

Fake story. Mugshot is from this case.

I know I'm factchecking a shitpost, but I get the feeling a lot of people would otherwise think this is a real story.

While it is true that rote memorization is a terrible thing for schools to focus on, I find it interesting that the discussion immediately jumped to "America bad" with a presumption it was a unique American practice. The many comments from around the world show it seems to be a more widespread practice.

In my experience, people with "bad GPS" tend to disregard the GPS directions because they think they know better. Once they are good and lost, and the GPS is freaking out and frantically trying to reroute is about when they start to complain that the GPS is useless.

Once again: Jellico was the hero the Enterprise needed, not the one it wanted.