Taser use up, too high

What the hell is the story behind the increased use of taser guns?

This article concerns a wheel-chair bound woman who died after being repeatedly shock by police taser guns.

This article is about a sheriffs deputy who ‘subdued’ an autistic boy using a taser gun.

This article states that a man was acting erratically, so he was tasered.

Why is it that when a cop appears on a scene, any scene, his or her mind set is such that everyone should immediately submit to the full power and control of the police force without question? If anyone ‘steps out of line’ then the cops training immediately sets him on a direct course of action to ‘subdue’ the ‘perpetrator’. It does not matter if that ‘perpetrator’ is a 56-year-old woman in a wheelchair or a 15-year-old autistic kid. To the ‘cop mind’ they are ‘perpetrators’ and should, by God, kneel down ‘to my unrelenting and unquestionable authority’.

Seriously, come on guys, how about using a little more restraint and control over yourselves? Especially against invalids.

Now, I’m not a ‘bleeding heart liberal’ but people do need to be treated with more respect than you guys are being programmed into give out.

My earliest memory of knowing for a fact that police do over-step their bounds as peace officers was in San Diego, California. A homeless man held off six police officers on the side of Interstate 15 with a cement trowel. Can you believe it? A cement trowel. And these guys, in their infinite cops imagination that only they can see, saw this as a ‘deadly weapon’ and they shot him multiple times. Of course he died from his wounds. And of course they went unpunished. I lost a lot of respect for police officers on that day.

Trust me when I say to cops everywhere, when people call for help they do not expect you to taser or kill everyone who doesn’t bow immediately to your authority. They expect, no demand, discretion and judicious use of these weapons. That’s right, they are not toys, they are weapons.

You need to learn the ‘customer service’ mentality and keep your ‘cop mode’ on hold until needed. You need to learn when to ‘turn off’ the cop voices inside your heads and become human again. If you would rather show up with the ‘cop mode’ switched on then you should go back for retraining.

This story is about a guy who just wanted to get to his home after a hurricane hit and tried to pass a police barricade. Guess what happened? They tasered him, in front of his kids. Now I ask you, was this really necessary? I don’t think so.