Saw this today then see this thread making me notice the incident from a year ago!
This is the future people… 🙁
The taser is “sold” as a non lethal method of incapacitating someone. That alone means some cops are more inclined to use it and will use it more.
I’ve no doubt 10 years from now it will be a near enough default method of tackling anyone that is even slightly more than being verbally uncooperative.
A cop pushes a belligerent bystander away, he’s still belligerent… tasered.
Someone attempts to run after a very minor transgression… taser.
You give cops a baton it will sometimes get used without need. Tasers are just a weapons upgrade.
There was a great documentary on the rising use of non lethal weapons to laugpa a person or even a whole populous. It’s an insidious method and it will “mission creep” into the default.
My experience of cops? Some are very decent people. Others either hate their job or the public…or both.
To be honest I think it’s fair to say that many cops will massage the truth a little if necessary… Until a video recording happens to turn up…