>> the taser is very painful. This is torture.
Pain, yes. Torture, no. The big advantage is that TASERs cause neuro-muscular incapacitation. Since pain compliance (PPCT - Pressure Point Control Technique, etc.) is commonly used in controlling unruly subjects, the pain caused by the TASER has a useful secondary effect. In the old days, a solid hit on the common peroneal nerve would get anyone’s attention. But, the pain would commonly last for 5 minutes. With the TASER, 5 seconds and it’s over. And, with the TASER, the mere display of one calms most all but the jackasses (most recently persons of color stirred up by the grievance mongers) and those on drugs, alcohol, and ED (excited delirium).
>> cops that shoot dogs.
Ever been attacked and bit by a dog? I have. TASERs are so effective against attacking dogs that a police dog hit with one will NEVER attack a human again. It’s instant retirement for the K-9.
>> The bad cop I knew tasered people because he knew he could get by with it. There was no way this guy could possibly get fired as he had no LEO chain of command that could fire or investigate him.
Huh? No mayor? No city council? No ambulance chasing lawyers with time on their hands? There’s gold in them thar 4th amendment abuses of power! Do your homework:
http://www.aele.org/law/Digests/ECWcases.html
‘Huh? No mayor? No city council?”
You are correct. No mayor, no governor, no director. No professional LEO chain of command. Only a supervisor within a smaller unit of a federal agency. A supervisor that could care less about the justice system but does care about advancing leftist agendas, just like we talk about here on FR. An agency whose prime mission has nothing to do with law enforcement. And these are gun carrying cops with real badges and real FLETC training.
I knew one of the victims quite well. In these agencies there is only administrative justice and suing the federal government is not as easy as suing a city. This victim fought his citation in federal court and somehow it was just dropped before the hearing date. There are other examples but there is no practical purpose in stating them. There are bad cops, period.