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Originally posted by icubitis
Let me start off by saying I'm a cop. I've been on the force for 4 years and love my job. My department is looking into acquiring tasers for all officers. There are some things I just had to post to this topic, after a few weeks of merely browsing ATS.
The tasers my department want to get have an automatic camera attached that records video and audio every single time the taser is used. I doubt this would make anyone feel better about police officers carrying them, but it at least is a level of security over out of control officers.
Originally posted by SkipShipman
The way to beat it is to outlaw it. It kills more people than a gunshot would in some instances. Being a menace to public safety and a torture device, the Taser is anti ethical to the general experience of the United States historically.
On the sum of it it is an instrument of class warfare, something like a cattle prod as the elite tell us what they think of us. In their sick expression of dominance they inflict pain with the assumption we are even less intelligent than 11th century serfs eating pottage. Do they think we are cattle?
[edit on 22-9-2007 by SkipShipman]
Originally posted by BlueRaja
... There's no class warfare going on. If you behave with class, you're not gonna get tasered.
Originally posted by Voxel
First of all, a taser does NOT work by sending electricity through you. That is why even if one prong touches you it can still function and disable a person. Wearing a foil body suit is only going to make the taser MORE effective.
The taser works by creating high-frequency AC potential at the prong tips. This creates an electromagnetic field, around the prong and the wires, which fluctuates at a high-rate. The presence of that field near any nerve in the body will cause spontaneous triggering of that nerve and any nerves attached to that one.
That is why tasers DO NOT need contact with the skin to create the convulsive effect.
What all this means is that by wearing something which will conduct electricity all you would be doing is helping to spread the field out so that it can trigger the firing of more nerves around your body. Ergo, you would accomplish little more than helping the cops torture you.
BASIC X26C ELECTRICAL THEORY
Electricity must be able to flow between the probes or the electrodes.
Electricity generally follows the path of least resistance between the probes.
The greater the spread between the probes on the target, generally the greater the NMI effectiveness.
Electricity will generally not pass to others in contact with the subject unless contact is made directly between or on the probes.
Electricity can arc through clothing.
page 6 of link
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Originally posted by BlueRaja
... There's no class warfare going on. If you behave with class, you're not gonna get tasered.
MOST cops are corrupt in one way or another, not just a "few bad apples". A direct witness to this is how they view Internal Affairs, and how it is almost unheard of for a cop to report another cop for illegal/unethical actions.
Originally posted by GrndLkNatv
tight knit chainmail over a rubber shirt.... You wouldn't be shocked but it would short out the tazer... Then while stupid cops stand in amazement, beat the sh.. out of them.
Originally posted by parry noid
I you wore a anti static braclet or something rubber, or something that grounds you could you beat the Taser? Or even, is it possible to build an immunity to electric shock?! Since it seems this is going to be the way of the future is there any way to beat it?
Please throw down some ideas, I want to hear what you all have to say?
On the sum of it it is an instrument of class warfare, something like a cattle prod as the elite tell us what they think of us. In their sick expression of dominance they inflict pain with the assumption we are even less intelligent than 11th century serfs eating pottage. Do they think we are cattle?
justified?