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pursue this and the end result would be disarming you,” Jenny Crain-Brady told him. “I just flat
have a problem with that.”
She then asked: “Does that mean we will always have a law enforcement officer at our meetings,
armed?” Crain-Brady asked.
“Yes,” Martinez said.
But there had almost always been an armed law enforcement officer at the meetings: the chief of
police himself, who makes a point of being at most meetings. Jones is often overshadowed by
Martinez, who’s commonly believed to call most of the shots in the police department.
Martinez will preserve his dual title: city manager and director of public safety. He, too, had
misgivings about giving up his gun, at least temporarily. (He may seek to be a reserve officer
somewhere, to maintain his certification.)
“I’ll just feel naked without my gun for a while,” Martinez said, “but I’ll need a permit or
something.”
“Not something,” Nowell corrected, eliminating still more shades of gray. “You need a permit.”
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