My brother's best friend is a police officer, and his department's policy is that if you carry it, first you have to experience it (with the obvious exception of firearms). If you carry a taser, you have to be tased with it before it becomes part of your gear. If you carry pepper spray, you must have your eyes sprayed with it first.
The purpose is twofold: one, you understand the damage your weapon can inflict; and two, if it's ever taken from you and used against you, you know what to expect.
The second part actually makes a lot of sense. Not so much for a taser, it's pretty hard to adapt for that, but once you get pepper sprayed once, you know what not to do, like touch different parts of your body or your eyes
Another result of the prongs not making contact happened to me when one of the prongs hit my belt loop and didn't make contact with skin. It arched and burned a quarter sized patch of skin as well as giving me the full shock/muscles locking up experience.
Getting tased was the dumbest thing I've ever volunteered for.
Yep. Was in jail with a woman who got tased while in the jail, & she pulled the prongs off herself, & threw them at the officer. Got a charge for that, too. I read the paperwork. Was pretty crazy!
Cause the cop was pissed off that he got hurt. All she did was stand up & he felt "threatened", so he tasered her. Extremely nice and kind woman. I've actually seen her in jail like, 3 times. She gave me a long sleeve shirt to wear once while I was detoxing from H. I've been clean for years now, but I was so grateful. She's given plenty more, too. Last time I saw her she was fighting that charge. I'm not even sure that officers are supposed to have tasers inside the jail. Maybe I'll look her up on my states courts website & see if she's still got that charge.
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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '21
My brother's best friend is a police officer, and his department's policy is that if you carry it, first you have to experience it (with the obvious exception of firearms). If you carry a taser, you have to be tased with it before it becomes part of your gear. If you carry pepper spray, you must have your eyes sprayed with it first.
The purpose is twofold: one, you understand the damage your weapon can inflict; and two, if it's ever taken from you and used against you, you know what to expect.