03-04-2010, 11:34 AM
This form of sophisticated violence, has replaced the physical restraint. No need to worry about excessive force. You simply point a taser & zap as per instructions. It is not designed to kill or maim permanently & if it does, well you can be sure the police were only doing their job. In Australia where I am from, they have only recently begun to roll them out to our police force. There has hardly been consideration as to the terms of use. All the debate has been as to how safe they are as compared to using a gun. We've had a spate of incidents involving police using them as a first point of order after a warning. Even for the most innocuous circumstances such as a drunken party revelers. It has eliminated the need for tolerance on the part of the police. They exact control not by mediation or reason, but violent threats of taser use. The police will just get lazier & sloppier if this persists as the norm without any legal repercussions it would seem.