[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What ticks me off is their nightsticks were taken away in favor of a taser which we’ve just seen does absolute sh*t.

[spetznaz]

Very good point. A taser may work well on you and me when we’re seated at the dinner table about to chug down some nice ribs when someone comes and puts some volts through us. However, against a determined criminal, who may be high on some illegal substances, or wearing clothes that prevent proper barb-to-skin contact, then a taser may easily not be as effective as it would otherwise be.

Same thing for pepper sprays and their stronger OC versions. They work and work well, but if someone is properly motivated or drugged their effect can be somewhat diluted.

A heavy nightstick to the head though will work even against the most pain resistant attacker!

[allblues]

Haven’t verified it, but I have read that tasers have been downgraded in power because of several deaths due to underlying conditions. You are right about the nightsticks, a couple PR 24s beating a paradiddle on the POS would have been an excellent incentive for an attitude adjustment.