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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
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.
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I think you are right to depend on the intelligence of the average police officer, our society has decided it doesn't want the police to be proactive, they need to think like a defense attorney, if you can think of ANY possible reason not to make a traffic/street stop don't, if you can think of ANY reason not to make an arrest don't, if there is ANY reason to think what you see isn't criminal don't interfere, there buy keeping themselves safe, complying with what is required, of course you have a 30% increase in homicides nation wide (statically higher in areas where is has been a bigger problem ) as we march towards nirvana finding the perfect way to train for the chaos of unscripted violent confrontations