... chair of the Colorado Probation Safety Advisory Committee -- best estimates indicate that nearly 80 percent of all probation staff members in Colorado have completed some safety training (P. Gervais-Voss, personal communication, January 9, 1997). Dispelling the Myths about Officers and Weapons As previously mentioned, many arguments are made against arming probation officers. One controversy is the question of liability if the ... of emotion, very little empirical data are available to prove the worthiness of either of these assumptions. The public assumes and expects that most probatio...

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