Bronshtein wrote:The Chief Constable of South Wales Police has decided he wants to arm all his constables with Tasers - I know it's not as sexy as a Glock 17 but hey! It's a start!
This because of 'knife crime' apparently.
Wales had the lowest incidence of knife crime (along with the South West of England) in 2015, and in 2016 the Deputy Chief Constable said 'there is not a culture of knife crime in South Wales'.
This week the Chief Constable said stabbings were rare.
This is the same guy who wants to arm all his officers because of 'knife crime' to make people think twice before attacking his officers. He's a complicated chap.
He might want to read up about the Australian experience. Tasers were issued on the justification that they would be used in preference to firearms when warranted. Within a couple of years, there were something like five hundred discharges of tasers. Are we to assume that there were actually 500 instances where, absent the taser, the police would have shot someone?
The cops like them so much here they like to use them in combination with capsicum spray. Apparently if you have a couple of other cops kneeling on the target’s chest or have them cuffed already and blinded them with pepper spray it’s much easier to hit them. Didn’t work out so well for the poor Brazilian kid, who suffered a psychotic episode in Sydney and nicked a packet of Tim Tams. He won’t do that again.
