Posted on 12/28/2009 9:24:51 PM PST by SmithL
Becoming a cop is voluntary. If you can’t handle toughs without using a Taser or gun then you need to seek employment elsewhere. There are only so many traffic and desk jobs available.
I would have to agree with your post.
Hmmm...point well taken.
Maybe from smoking, drinking and cancer, but not in the line of duty. 2009 was the safest year for Law Enforcement officers in the last 50. Only 124 died in the line of duty and only 48 of those were firearm related. Source
Amen.
Why do I suspect the number of contacts with LEO that are death related are higher, I mean for the civilian?
Probably because you are reasonably intelligent. LEO’s are better drivers and (presumably) not intoxicated. They are also permitted to wear body armor, whereas the citizenry is subject to arrest for doing the same.
I can't believe that the 9th Circus Court of Appeals almost got this one right. I say "almost" because the Court should have ruled that the suspect must pose an "immediate threat of serious harm to person or property." Otherwise, LEO will continue to find an immediate threat of the most unthreatening kind as an excuse to play with their tazers.
/mark
ah, read more, it isn’t about just the cop.
Tasers save the person being tased from physical harm.
And do you think that with this decision that there will be more Police and Suspects dieing or less??
From everything I have observed, you are going to get a significant up tick in both.
They are, but tasers keep the death rate for the civilians down too.
I think the ACLU has a number of people on the board here and the public that a taser is nothing more than a cattle prod. This is an out an out lie.
Everyone is buying the ACLU lie including the courts.
Watch a large group of people get tased for the first time as part of Marine training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSW44UPgwQ
Do electrical stun guns (TASER-X26®) affect the functional integrity of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators?
http://europace.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/7/551
And google:
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=taser+pacemaker&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
If Tasers affected pacemakers people would be dropping like flies and the taser would have been pulled from the market.
Street justice is the only justice most of these freaks will ever get...light em up at the FIRST word of sass and keep lighting til they learn proper behavior.
That’s exactly how it was with my mother. She told me if the cops ever picked me up, don’t bother calling her, she’ll ask the judge to give me the max punishment, and don’t bother trying to come home, cuz she refused to be embarrassed by raising a hooligan.
Somehow, I avoided trouble with the law quite well. May not have the usual complement of “entertaining” stories of “high school fun”, but I find that a more than fair trade.
I take MAJOR issue with your constant use of the word “CIVILIAN” when you are referring to the public.
ALL cops are NOTHING MORE than fellow citizens entrusted with the EVEN enforcement of the law. You are NOT military or sailors, you are just another citizen.
You guys had better learn to treat your fellow citizens with the deference and politeness they deserve, or there will be huge consequences. You guys are already afraid to go into many areas of major cities as it is. The kind of mindset you are evincing here shows a HUGE “us vs. them” mentality.
Do you want to get the entire populace angry enough at you to defund and shrink departments? It is not impossible.
You are a COP, not some superior being we are supposed to kowtow to like 0bama (ptui) does to various kings etc.
Regarding the taser episode I posted, the cops involved have ALL lost their badges, for showing poor judgement and using excessive force. The ruling was announced today.
ah, you are ping the wrong guy, the guy using civilian is in post 86. I was simply replying to him.
How bout reading before you post?
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