Comments on Cop in the Hood: Taser risks

Dave, Your optimism gives a lift to my day! I hop...

2009-10-25T19:06:43.460-04:00

Dave,
Your optimism gives a lift to my day! I hope you're right. You probably are.

"If lawsuits start eating away at P.D. money,...

2009-10-25T18:54:34.189-04:00

"If lawsuits start eating away at P.D. money, they'll drop them in a flash."

Or if they're smart (C'mon, I'm giving management the benefit of th doubt), they will adopt more restrictive taser policies (which will move taser use up on the use of force continuum), and provide more training, with an emphasis on the medical implications of a taser jolt.

Tasers, like SWAT teams, are being over used, and in the process, the quality of policing is being degraded. Police agencies seem to be trying to justify the existence of both of these tools when they shouldn't have to .

With that said above, some people may be ready to ...

2009-10-25T07:28:08.668-04:00

With that said above, some people may be ready to die the day they are tased... We have a recreation path here in town. For a while someone was dieing once a year on it... Was the cause the path becaue they were exerting themselves??? Do we blam the path because they died. Another example is there H1N1 vaccine. They gave it out in the 1970s.... The health officals said some people will die after getting the vaccine. Meaning there will be someone who will have a heart attack cause it there time to have one. Some people did have heart attacks and died. They stopped giving the vaccine because they thought that is was caused. Just another perspective.

We have Taser's and like them. We've had g...

2009-10-25T06:56:14.759-04:00

We have Taser's and like them. We've had good deployments when they have been used. Taser now has sent out a training bulletin telling officers not to deploy in the chest area. There is chance of hart problems!!! One trainer said Taser is covering there ass from law suites it we deploy at the chest after reading the training bulletin. (If anyone wants to see the training bulletin, I can e-mail it) My chief will tell you Taser is a pain in the ass to deal with when buying products and trying to get Taser's repaired. It's a good product but if it starts killing people, may we shoudld all send them back!!