Taser abuse is bad for one's health (27)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-06-23 22:44 ID:oBTG8Vfh

http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=770
"Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie, the [Taser] gun shoots two fish-hook-barbed electrical wires that can travel up to 21 feet and deliver a 50,000-volt shock in a cycle that lasts five seconds. It can also be fired by placing the weapon in direct contact with clothing or skin. The shock renders the recipient instantly immobile, and the five-second cycle may be increased if the officer continues to hold the trigger down."

""If that trooper didn’t have the Taser, he’d have had to do real police work — just wait my client out ’til he settled down. Now the police are all in a hurry to go get that next café latte, and the Taser makes things quick."

"Gordon Randall Jones, 37, was jolted at least 12 times with a Taser after he’d been disruptive outside a hotel in Orange County, Fla. "and refused to leave and pulled away from deputies." After the 12th hit, he accompanied officers to an ambulance and died en route to the hospital."

2 Name: Unverified Source 2005-07-02 14:31 ID:Heaven

Hold it down 'till they catch fire.

3 Name: Unverified Source 2005-07-02 14:45 ID:tSbQLALZ

>>2

Is this Syphon Filter?

4 Name: GearheadX 2005-07-03 14:48 ID:y8kxiGoQ

These things are entirely too dangerous. They aren't non-lethal, they're less-lethal. But some police officers are treating them as if they were the magic bullet that ends all their troubles. Of course, the quality of law enforcement officers has been on the decline for quite a few years.

5 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-01-16 04:37 ID:aRszf3Fr

I vote for that nobody should be allowed to carry a taser at all, unless they've gotten tased at least twice, so that they'll fully grasp wtf they're wielding.

6 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-01-16 21:58 ID:LLq8uyRH

>>5

Cops in the US are actually required to be shot by one in training, so evidently somebody beat you to the punch on that one.

7 Name: RionZ : 2007-01-21 04:00 ID:wG+fvEL7

>>6 That and sometimes they also have to get sprayed with pepper spray as well in training.

8 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-01-28 11:09 ID:TKSGMk0+

"Reporters like to get tazed too."

9 Name: King[of]Spain : 2007-02-15 13:16 ID:yT/9u3L5

>>4

FACT: The real magic bullet is a bullet.

YES.

10 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-02-16 05:19 ID:n7YvzomZ

moar liek "lazorz pew pew," amirite?

11 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-06 03:42 ID:CZNN+r+z

Tazers may be bad for your health but its better than getting shot with a gun.

12 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-06 04:20 ID:2SIBp4z1

>>4>>6>>9>>10>>11
Truths. Tasers are a usefull tool, but they arent an license to be a bad influence on the community.

13 Name: junya : 2007-03-09 11:57 ID:snUMMOEa

Absolutely false. Few depatments ever required cops to be shocked as part of training. Many now ban training shocks. Get the facts from http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2005/05/09/sj-taser-review.pdf

"In Salem OR, a deputy police chief was hospitalized for a week with serious head injuries after a demo electroshock caused him to stiffen and topple backwards too quickly for the supporting officers to catch him. The Phoenix AZ Police
Department, the first major metropolitan police department in the country to issue Tasers to all of its officers, strongly recommended that officers experience Taser shocks until 2002, when one officer dislocated his shoulder and another chipped a tooth, both from falls after being shocked. The department now prohibits officers from being shocked. Phoenix is not the only department: Metro Las Vegas NV
no longer lets its officers use Tasers on each other during training because several officers fell after they were jolted and were injured. The department says it can't afford to take officers off the streets. Taking a more proactive stance, the Scottsdale Police Department also banned officers from being shocked by
Tasers during training, citing a concern over possible injuries. These departments have taken the highly duplicitous position of parroting Taser International's questionable claims of safety so they may use Tasers on the public, while citing safety concerns as the reason for their rejection of the company's
recommendation that police experience Taser shock first-hand. "

14 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-09 21:38 ID:GZpiOg7G

IF A POLICE HAS TO GET TAZERED IN TRAINING. THAT DOES NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, IT JUST ADDS TO THE INSANE MIND OF THE POLIC. THEY WILL BE LIKE "TIME TO GET REVENGE FOR WHEN I WAS TAZER" AND THEY WILL TAZER THE MEXICAN

15 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-11 02:40 ID:Heaven

i think that nobody should be allowed to carry a taser at all unless they've gotten tased at least fifteen times in less than an hour. non-lethal my ass!

16 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-13 03:17 ID:VjbfY3qK

>>11
I'd rather be shot with a gun. at least then I'd die quickly instead of being in excruciating pain for several hours before I die.

17 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-13 08:07 ID:0/3nd6g8

>>16
don't count on it.

18 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-16 02:00 ID:lTFRv/3Y

>>16

Guns are pretty good for incapacitating someone, but notoriously unreliable for killing anyone, unless the gun happened to be fired by an expert marksman.

You'd have to be shot several times, and even then, you'd still be marginally conscious for a very long time before actually dying.

As for the whole taser thing, I think we should get rid of them. I prefer that cops carry guns. Yes, they are more lethal than tasers but that is precisely why I prefer it. The more lethal the weapon, the more hesitant the cop will likely be to use it to defuse a situation. Give them a taser and they think "Hey this isn't lethal, I can just bust it out whenever I want, problem solved!"

19 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-18 10:20 ID:jY6WDPJ0

>>18
What about the nightstick, then?

20 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-18 23:04 ID:Heaven

>>19
Requires more effort to use than a taser.

21 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-03-23 18:59 ID:Heaven

>>20
LOL NO IT ISN'T

22 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-04-27 16:03 ID:yi95KGRV

How about stop resisting arrest?

If you look at how many people died accidently resisting arrest compared to the what 5 people who died being tazered. You might see this is utter nonsense that the PC fag crowd is hyping up. Just like global warming, and gun control. Its all the same crowd spouting the same lie fueled arguments.

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24 Name: Unverified Source : 2007-04-29 13:45 ID:Heaven

>>22
Troll harder.

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