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DoubleJ wrote:Spidey Senses.
I gotcha. thanks.

Yup - you got it.

I'll be sure to use the right term next time.

DoubleJ wrote:uh, what's the "woo-woo" factor?

Sorry for the confusion - I haven't heard it commonly used in Texas.

It's a street term for what some folks might call extra sensory perception, spiritual sight, or something similar.

Abraham wrote:I wonder how an LEO, without observable I.D., but openly carrying, is understood to be one as observed by an another, uninformed LEO?

While a positive ID of an openly armed plainclothes officer wouldn't be possible without checking credentials, there are a lot of nonverbal cues that an officer would look for and recognize. Under the "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, more than likely it's a duck" evaluation process, an officer would know whether or not there's a real good possibility and would proceed accordingly.

This works the same way as the way serious bad guys and cops who have never met can recognize each other's status on sight probably 85% of the time regardless of where they are or how they are dressed.

Some believe that the mechanism is unconscious recognition of subtle visual cues that folks without extensive contact with the criminal culture miss. Others attribute it to the "woo woo" factor. In any case I've seen enough instances that I can personally verify that it works.

Liberty wrote:This is odd, I thought if the unbadged showed up open carrying people would be fainting in the streets and 911 calls would be made and silent alarms pulled.

Another reason why I love Texas.

In the wimpified and thoroughly brainwashed areas like San Fran and Chicago, they'd still be hauling out all the folks who had keeled over from coronaries at the site of a weapon on the person of someone who wasn't in uniform.

It's amazing what conditioning can do.