- Thread Starter
- #21
I don't have the answer but if mace and tasers are not always effective And you don't want to Quickly and positively put somebody down with the baton (whether it's to the head or somewhere else), Then currently you're left with bullets .....and look at the fallout from what happened to Jacob Blake ......granted that kind of a shooting doesn't happen that often but I don't think the political atmosphere is going to tolerate the use of bullets the way it has in the past ......Which is why I'm hoping somebody can come up with something like an epipen To create A nearly instantaneous unconscious state.
Having said all that I would have to ask which is most likely to cause death, a baton used to put a person unconscious or a bullet?
Someone mentioned better training for officers but I think the general public needs training also There has to be a realization and an agreement That if you answer an officers questions or peacefully submit to arrest there will be no violence perpetrated by anybody..... It can all be sorted out later by the attorneys or further discussion ...Officers should not be expected to be ultimate fighters and currently if you threaten them even with fists , but especially with any kind of weapon they're going to be thinking " I want to go home to my kids tonight" And you Mr. John Q Public are going to get hurt...
For those that are about to be questioned or arrested who are not of sound mind or doped up, I don't have the answer but I think the officers reasoning that he wants to go home to his family still applies .....if you willingly got doped up and went out into public you're putting yourself at risk.... If you're insane or mentally defective you shouldn't be out on a street in the 1st place which of course goes back to the cuts clear back in the Reagan administration that eliminated a lot of mental hospitals.
Having said all that I would have to ask which is most likely to cause death, a baton used to put a person unconscious or a bullet?
Someone mentioned better training for officers but I think the general public needs training also There has to be a realization and an agreement That if you answer an officers questions or peacefully submit to arrest there will be no violence perpetrated by anybody..... It can all be sorted out later by the attorneys or further discussion ...Officers should not be expected to be ultimate fighters and currently if you threaten them even with fists , but especially with any kind of weapon they're going to be thinking " I want to go home to my kids tonight" And you Mr. John Q Public are going to get hurt...
For those that are about to be questioned or arrested who are not of sound mind or doped up, I don't have the answer but I think the officers reasoning that he wants to go home to his family still applies .....if you willingly got doped up and went out into public you're putting yourself at risk.... If you're insane or mentally defective you shouldn't be out on a street in the 1st place which of course goes back to the cuts clear back in the Reagan administration that eliminated a lot of mental hospitals.