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Originally Posted by Andyb
This will set precedence that police will back off arrests in resisting criminals and many police will be quitting. It will
embolden criminals. Now, will self defense be in jeopardy for innocent victims?
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I have more faith in the intelligence of police officers than you do I guess.
I think it'll set the precedence of more and superior training in the use of tasers, possibly a new design so that there's no way to confuse the two, and possibly even new holster designs so that tasers will be located at a completely different part of the uniform as a gun, making it even MORE difficult to confuse the two.
Perhaps a taser will require a different holster latch and be pulled by the officer's "off-hand" rather than their primary hand.
I think it'll make officers who use tasers in their job, more aware of which they're using. It will become more instinctual so that in that last split-second when they have to pull SOMETHING out of a holster, they'll pull the right thing.