Why the fuss about Police tasering people, would you rather get shot?, how about hit with a baton or tear gas?

mebe1042

Unfortunately you're fighting an uphill battle on this subject.

Too much hype and anecdotal "Evidence" from media sources that Tasers are lethal. Despite the hundreds of thousands of Police Officers that have been shot with Tasers in training and not one of them has died if all too often ignored.

Most people can't grasp the concept that there is a difference between "Volts" and "Amps". Or that the Taser effect is the application of the same Milli-amps that the human body uses to control muscle movement. What a Taser does is create and "Override" on a person's muscle control and makes the subjects muscles contract. That's why you see people that have been tased fall over like a board.

Whoever said they'd rather see batons used is a fool. And the clown that was "asking a question" (Ranting in public is closer to the truth) tried to set up the Campus P.D. for a "Brutality" incident failed miserably.

It's been shown time and time again that those that have died after a Taser incident died because of drugs in their system(Excited Delirium) or over exertion causing a heart attack from struggling with Officers.

drag1line

I'm with you!
Do away with them, what is the alternative? If people do not want to be shot by law enforcement..>DON'T Deserve it!

~*shea*~

I completely agree. If these people didn't act like maniacs they wouldn't tased or beaten up. They get what they deserve.

wfsgymwear

You go Devildog. Trust me stay in. I got out after five years. Now I feel like I am a babysitter. And the kids don't ever listen. I love the Taser. It gives me an extra 21 feet on foot chases. Its like Spiderman! DON'T RUN. It helps subdue fighters when we are on the ground (with drive stuns) It also saves my hands. I have broke my hands from pulling people out of cars and from rolling around trying to get them cuffed. Now I just drive stun them. DON'T FIGHT. It is so simple these people do not understand...

xuserx2000

Whatever happened to a good ol' fashioned passionate azzwhippin ?

Nowaday's it seems the easy thing to do is shoot people with 50k volts.....when it would have been more appropriate to just get old school...do the chickenwing pinch and shove the little 16 yr old punks face in the dirt.

Obvious the taser is necessary in alot of cases ....but it seems it's being used out of convenience more and more.

btw- getting hit with a baton, doesn't typically stop your heart instantly.... so yes the baton is preferrable to me.

dcarcia@sbcglobal.net

i agree, if someone is unrully and the police have tried everything else, then they should be able to use it.

Stewie Griffin

It's precisely that a taser does not break bones or leave bruises like a baton that police are more likely to use a taser when its not appropriate.

BTW Rodney King WAS tasered.

First Lady

I think all the fuss is not the use of them, but because people are dying from them. I'm not at all defending people who are tasered because if they were following the law, then they wouldn't be tasered in the first place, but what people are being tasered for shouldn't be resulting in death.

notyochic

ya that is y people are dropping dead like flies after a tase! let's tase you and see if you survive! do you want to take that chance? i didn't think so!

bluntdrgn

how humane the taser depends on the cop using it. we recently had a police officer taser a girl who was half his size, and three times above legal limit for resisting arrest. he tazed her a total of 27 times, leaving burn holes clothes in her clothes. this was while she was cuffed. he also tazed her inside her inside the cruiser. so, how humane are tazers?

Not To Serious

Maybe if some cop taser you you might change your mind

Gengi

i think the baton was heaps more humane then the tazer, at least of you were killing someone you could see it. tazars are just making police work easy there have been many cases when they have been used on non violent non complyent individuals. if you wouldn't shoot someone why are you tazering them?

Chris R

It's not the tasers people have problem with.

It's when police use them against somebody asking John Kerry a question.

It's things like that. Don't use them unless it's to replace lethal force.

Slick

tasering is just another way for cops to brutily hurt people....

There is no Shermer in Illinois

I don't want to be shot, electrocuted, hit, or gassed. Until we hold police accountable for misdeeds I do not need anything from them. I wouldn't call them if I needed help.

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