Aim tasers away from chest, RCMP told

[Nark]

Take away the tasers completly. And the peashooters.
Give them Glock 22s, that will solve all their problems subduing disorderly drunk senior citizens.

[Just another canuck]

Aim high or low... these guys survived.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSYlxzCHvKg

[b1ngnx33]

The new targets are the following :

Head, side of head, neck.

Arms, legs, groin area, ass area.

Feet : not a target as most criminals wear shoes which may "neutralize" the tazer. Maybe. Have no desire to find out.

In case the target has no legs, no arms, and no head, then aim at the chest.

[Driving Rain]

[BoostedNihilist]

that is priceless... hahahaha

It would be better with five officers on the one horse all with their tazers zapping away.

[Nark]

The taser has SAVED way more lives than it has taken.

For the next thirty days at least, I'm brainwashed to kill everything that crosses my path, with that said;

Why would I want to fight somebody even handed when I know at the end of the fight I must win?

If I have the tool available I'm going to use it.



Here is the scenario.

Asshole RCMP bubba stops you simply because he is a dick and wants to use his taser because he hasn't filled his tazing quota for the month.
He asks you for your ID. You hesitate to produce it, perhaps inquiring why. He doesn't tell you.
Thankfully he has his name stitched on his vest/uniform and you put it in your brain housing group for storage later.
He then proceeds to handcuff you because you still don't produce an ID.
After he searches you he finds your ID runs it in "the system" and finds you did pay that parking ticket, and you aren't on the lam.

He releases you warning you to "produce your ID next time."

We should learn two things:
1) Don't resist (physically) and you wont be tasered.
2) File a complaint, for whatever civil liberties you feel were violated. People actually do follow up on complaints against the police you know.

Complying for 15-30-60 minutes is well worth it if in the end you don't get tasered, and 2 the asshole RCMP bubba gets disciplined for various "Charter of Rights" violations.

Or you could be a hero to no one but yourself and get tasered after 10 seconds. It's up to you.

[the_professor]

The taser has SAVED way more lives than it has taken.

For the next thirty days at least, I'm brainwashed to kill everything that crosses my path, with that said;

Why would I want to fight somebody even handed when I know at the end of the fight I must win?

If I have the tool available I'm going to use it.

Nark, you have a military perspective, correct? That is entirely the wrong lens through which to be evaluating the actions of police officers against civilians that have not been convicted of a crime, let alone even having been accused of a crime, as has usually been the case with taser deaths.

Don't confuse battlefield rules of engagement with civilian policing. There is nothing in common between the two, be it the circumstances, nor the legal implications.

[Nark]

Correct, my perspective on crime/criminal justice/criminology has a military spin to it.

I do however have a degree in Criminal Justice, and now thanks to the American taxpayer I'm continuing on in the criminology field in a very specific discipline.

But please, teach me what many professors obviously couldn't.

[canwhitewolf]

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[canwhitewolf]

the tazer is an outright evil weapon ,thats all there is to it. period

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the tazer is an outright evil weapon ,thats all there is to it. period

It seems a deer feels the same as you as here is a vid of one charging @ a cop after it just got tased BY HIM!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmgWQtD ... re=related

[2R]

Old British copper joke:

A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Glasgow copper. He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a big time lawyer from London and is certain that he has a better education then any Jock cop. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the cop's expense.

Cop says," License and registration, please."

Lawyer says, "What for?"

"Ye didnae come to a complete stop at the stop sign."

"I slowed down, and no one was coming."

"Ye still didnae come to a complete stop. License and registration, please."

"What's the difference?"

"The difference is, ye huvte come to a complete stop; that's the law. License and registration, please!"

Lawyer says, "If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and registration, and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me the ticket."

"Sounds fair. Exit your vehicle, sir."

So the lawyer gets out.

The cop takes out his baton and starts beating the crap out of the lawyer and says, "Dae ye want me to stop, or just slow down?"

[Geko]

Here you go I am Birddog.



I hope you don't care that it's called the Birdman rather than the Birddog.

[Brewguy]

Tasers are a great (less lethal) tool when compared to shooting people.... But their use should be restricted to situations where, in the past, the police would have pulled out a gun. That is to say, those fringe areas where the cop may hesitate to use lethal force.

By all means, if you're going to shoot me for something, I'd prefer to get zapped.

But to use the thing to put an uncooperative person on the ground is just wrong. Police have managed to subdue people without electrocuting them for a long time now ... are todays fat, lazy out of shape public so much harder to subdue than people were in the past?

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I hope you don't care that it's called the Birdman rather than the Birddog.

Is this your invention? annnd do I get a cut in profits?

[canwhitewolf]

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[canwhitewolf]

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[Geko]

I hope you don't care that it's called the Birdman rather than the Birddog.

Is this your invention? annnd do I get a cut in profits?

Sorry, no and no.