Police Department officials are not interested in having their officers carry/lose extra gun parts, like choke tubes - nor get into having said officers get into changing stuff - more properly the job of the armorer in an organization.
Especially an organization where the vast majority of members are not gun-oriented, and only touch their weapons when they absolutely have to, as in a "situation" or for qualifying.
Vintage Police-model shotguns were usually referred to as "riot guns", and most were full choke short barrels with a front bead only - slugs not yet then in common use.
They were used, in addition to firing directly at personell, for rioting crowd control via shooting at the ground/pavement just in front of said rioters.
The richochet usually picked up all sorts of dirt/gravel, which travelled along with the shot charge, making for a very effective street/alley cleaning "tool".
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