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Officer Carrying 54 Weapons Avoids Scrutiny

Participants Fail To Detect Hidden Stash

Posted: 2:21 p.m. CST November 1, 2001

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An out-of-uniform police officer carrying 54 different weapons was able to sit in a workplace violence workshop this month without participants detecting his hidden arsenal.

In a story for Eyewitness News 5 Thursday, Iowa Tribe police officer Scott Stropes armed himself with 43 knives, 7 handguns, two canisters of pepper spray and two expandable batons to demonstrate how easy it is for people to overlook potential deadly security threats.

Stropes stashed the weapons in his waistband, boots and hair. One knife was taped to the bottom of his boot. Before entering the workshop, he expressed confidence that participants would not catch on to the demonstration.

"They might notice that I don't belong with executives, but they won't think twice about what I have on me -- they never do," he said.

Stropes was able to sit at a workshop conference table without raising the suspicion of the participants, even though he was uninvited and no one recognized him, King reported.

After the workshop, Stropes revealed his weapons, much to the surprise to those in the room.

Many participants said they were shocked by the volume of the officer's hidden weapons.

"I would have never realized that he had so many weapons on him -- any actually," one participant said. "I just thought he was a big, bulky guy."

"I couldn't believe it," another workshop attendee said.

The security demonstration is intended to be as blatant as possible, Stropes said.

"If we over-exaggerate and we use a whole bunch, it gets people's attention," he said. "It just brings our point home.

Loxi James of P.E.E.R. Group, Inc. assisted Stropes in the demonstration. P.E.E.R. Group, Inc. was established by a group of state planners to provide assistance and training to public and private school districts, state and local officials in the areas of juvenile crime prevention and law enforcement and awareness of social problems.

James said that the demonstrations have a specific purpose.

"I want this to astound you," she told the workshop. "To help you to understand where things can be carried, what doesn't feel right and when something is wrong."

"Don't walk around in fear, but sometimes I personally wish that people would pay a little more attention because when we can walk into a room full of people and they don't bat an eye even though you don't belong there, it's scary."

(you may wish to click the link just to check exactly what he had on him)

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

Answers

I would say that most of the people I meet in a normal day have little awareness that the threat may be closer to home. Most of them do not watch the news or read the paper. I've wondered if I should stop paying attention and just have a good time? If it's bad enough, I won't make it anyway, and in the meantime I could enjoy life more.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

Or look here:

http://images.ibsys.com/2001/1101/1038213_200X150.jpg

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

My question.... which item was it he had stashed in his hair?

I'm thinking as long as my hair is, I might be able to stash something in mine....

apoc - wondering if she could stash a shotgun? (LOL)

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

apoc, hair up in a bun with the shotgun as a hair pin??? ;>)

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001

apoc, hair up in a bun with the shotgun as a hair pin??? ;>)

makes me think that women will not be allowed to use hair pins, or decorative accessories in their hair, such as those things with sticks that women use to tie up their hair. Potential weapon.

The things I have in mind look like chop sticks going thru a little wicker basket. Women at work use them all the time because hair must be tied up when working on the machines.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001