[Lazamataz]

Ping for finally addressing the Flashlight Beating issue.

[Rakkasan1]

this is just so defense attorneys can't say "so you beat my poor, defenseless client with a steel pipe officer?"

rather than "beat them with an expandable ,steel baton called an ASP."

[hoosierham]

I know of private security companies that forbid their people carry ANY weapon and they include large flashlights in the list;several years ago a Kentucky State Trooper told me their maglites were taken away and 2-cell PLASTIC flashlights issued instead.

Hey. if the subject is a threat it is better to shoot and KILL him under the warped system of today-no one can be "shown the light" whilst still a petty criminal. We forbid all corporal punishment and correction except execution after the petty criminal becomes a hardened killer with multiple offenses.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I prefer a Streamlight over the Maglite myself.

Now for the war stories.

During a riot I Streamlighted 11 stitches into a gentleman's forehead after I Streamlighted him once to the 'jewelli familia' and another strike to the forehead went unnoticed.

A defence lawyer once accused me on the stand of hitting his client with my nightstick and I had to admit that it wasn't the nightstick, it was my partner Streamlight.

Beat 'em if you got 'em.