I actually don't know that distance alone is why they opted against it in this particular instance, but I know it has been an issue in the past. I would have liked to have seen all non-lethal options exhausted first, however futile, though the 2-5 seconds it can take for a shot taser to reach full incapacitation makes that distance vital when it leaves the person in a potentially volatile state for those 2-5 seconds. It's typically protocol to mainly use it in the instance of a flee, when the perpetrators back is against the officer.Arising_uk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:39 amEr!? I'd have thought this would mean they were getting further away. Police tasers work up to 30 feet more than enough to tackle someone standing still with a knife.Sir-Sister-of-Suck wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2017 6:23 am You have to get pretty close to someone with either a stun gun or a taser, which is why cops ideally use when the perpetrator is fleeing, and not to disarm them of a weapon. ...
Though I see your concerns why the police would need to be willing to take a risk like this or reform their protocol, in terms of self-defense I think any civilian would have been justified in doing the same.
I don't disagree with you that our police force kill too many, but the reason why a taser or stun gun isn't used to disarm someone is a matter of electroshock weapons causing muscle contraction, and not muscle release. It would cause someone to grip harder onto whatever is in their hand, and not let go of it.You have got to be joking!! Your country's police-force are out-of-control.
I was using that as a reason they shouldn't have done what they did.Arising_uk wrote: ↑Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:39 amSo police procedure is to assist suicides over there, handy for the terminally ill then.Sir-Sister-of-Suck wrote:and his openly-stated intention of wanting to die. ...
Perhaps that's an incentive that a lot of them have, but people who choose to identify as "non-binary" has nothing to do with gender desegregation, it's that these people don't feel as though they are either male nor female.According to the young I talk to the idea is to do away with the idea of engendered roles altogether, they think this fracturing of identities is just a stage in the process although I disagree with them about this as I think it a retrograde step which will be hard to change.