Taser use

[fourseven]

I love reports like this.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/police-use-more-firearms-and-shoot-tasers-for-wrong-reasons-says-ccc/story-e6frg12c-1225933876243


The report also expresses concern about:

* The increasing and disproportionate use of Taser weapons against Indigenous people. This increased from 16 per cent of Taser weapon use in 2007 to 30 per cent in 2009.

Has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that coons are more likely to be causing trouble...

[Ryan1080]

Stating the obvious and saying it's due to more coons being pingpingpingpings would be racist though woudn't it.

[Mad_Aussie]

Yep, I reckon take the tasers off the pingpingpingpings. Bullets work better against the indigenous, just ask anyone from Tasmania.

[RICEY]

Problem easily solved, stop breaking the law rock apes.

[s1mon]

What I love is that Tasers are used as a tool to 'impose compliance' and not as a substitute for lethal force.

What I love even more is the CCC realise this.

[V70R]

Id hate to be a copper. Always under scrutiny for using the tools to do your job effectively.

[Joe]

Cast your minds back to July 2009.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/839881/man-catches-on-fire-after-use-of-taser

This is why they should use tasers.. everybody likes a Boong-B-Q.

[TheChad]

Cast your minds back to July 2009.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/839881/man-catches-on-fire-after-use-of-taser

This is why they should use tasers.. everybody likes a Boong-B-Q.

always makes me laugh, no matter how many times i read that article.

[JBAE]

they are right they really shouldnt use tasers on coons...

they should be reaching for the less high visibilty louder polymer item strapped to there hip instead...

[dmwill]

Lol. just saw a report on the news...

Footage was shown of a guy running away from police "...This man gets tazered from behind, gashing his face as he falls..."

Umm, the guy was running from Police - he deserved it.

It would not surprise me if the people who winge about their use are the same who insisted Police be equipped with them.

[JBAE]

fucking idiots though seriously they are complaining about coping a boot from a taser... do they not realise the other option? and the consequences? GSW arnt cool lol

[Fukushima]

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[31-EVO]

Lol. just saw a report on the news...

Footage was shown of a guy running away from police "...This man gets tazered from behind, gashing his face as he falls..."

Umm, the guy was running from Police - he deserved it.

It would not surprise me if the people who winge about their use are the same who insisted Police be equipped with them.

If I remember correctly this happened in Bunbury, should of head the public up roar about it, but yeah the dumb ass was legging it from the Police after taking a swing at someone.

[MikeS14]

Need to modify tasers with amps running through them for the boongs.

[family guy]

Sure they would rather tasers than this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCxc4SjpN6M

[Drift_R32]

need to modify guns to look like tazers.. there maybe afew more tazer related deaths though. couldnt happen to more deserving people.

[AndrZeJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsERNGjaafU

[esky]

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[adrenalin]

Lol

For a hippie took all that pretty well

[SR20WA]

http://www.news.com.au/national/man-dies-after-being-tasered-by-police-in-domestic-incident-at-sefton-sydney/story-e6frfkvr-1225934117520

[Roobiks]

And this is precisely the reason I'm not joining the poilice force. I'd be strolling through Midland wielding akimbo tazers, yo.

"ARRGHHH.. WHITE, MAGIC, VOODOO, MOTHER FUCKER... YOU WERE COLD AS ICE!" They would cry..

[Jiblet]

they should use tasers as an alternative to shooting people but 13 times is a little excessive imo..

[Mad_Aussie]

they should use tasers as an alternative to shooting people but 13 times is a little excessive imo..

No shit. The thing is though, that this all ties in with everything wrong with the police at the moment. Total abuse of power, and with the stop and search laws and the 'hit a cop and go to jail' laws they're trying to push, it's only going to get worse.
Soon we'll be seeing Judge Dredd riding around the streets of Perth...

[chris260]

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Lets go Tasee crazy......

[ReaperSS]

I had 2 cops pull out ther tasers on me a few months back.
Came so close to getting zapped. Glad i didnt

[Joe]

Fuckin Monarch white dog pingpingpingpings carrying them tasers around..

[mitchy]

No shit. The thing is though, that this all ties in with everything wrong with the police at the moment. Total abuse of power, and with the stop and search laws and the 'hit a cop and go to jail' laws they're trying to push, it's only going to get worse.
Soon we'll be seeing Judge Dredd riding around the streets of Perth...

bullshit.
yes a few might go on a power trip, but it doesn't mean they all abuse their power, etc..

CSB, etc.. whatever, but i got pulled up by some officers in northbridge a few months ago and just got to to stop being a dickhead, no fine no tazer, nothing.

[Milhouse]

They let you go when you explained you were batman right ?

[shifted]

I don't see a problem with the stop and search laws.

I have nothing to hide in my pockets, would prefer they take some weapons off of people that are carrying them.

[mr_mike]

they should use tasers as an alternative to shooting people but 13 times is a little excessive imo..

13 times is excessive if the person being tazered is a 40kg semi conscious person, but what if the person being tazered is a 150kg jacked up on meth psycho?
These are the facts that the media always leave out.

[Jiblet]

13 times is excessive if the person being tazered is a 40kg semi conscious person, but what if the person being tazered is a 150kg jacked up on meth psycho?
These are the facts that the media always leave out.

yes i agree with that.

[Macca]

Wonder what would happen if cops decided tazering ppl was a legal nightmare and decided to start pulling out the glock? Wonder how many people would start squealing then about misuse of powers.
Seriously all those complaining go walk the beat and see what shit these people put up with.

[Halle Terry]

He's up to 24 times! ahhahaha!


An Aboriginal man who was tasered 13 times by police officers at East Perth Watch House forwarded a written apology nearly a month later to the West Australian police commissioner.

WA Police Union boss Russell Armstrong said 41-year-old Kevin Spratt wrote to the police commissioner a month after he was brought into the East Perth Watch House just after 11 (WST) one August night in 2008.

The WA corruption watchdog on Monday revealed Mr Spratt was first tasered 11 times after refusing to comply to a strip search.

An officer then yelled "do you want to go again" and Mr Spratt was tasered another two times.

Mr Armstrong said Mr Spratt wrote a letter to the police commissioner on September 26 stating he didn't want the officers disciplined and he apologised for his actions.

A spokesman for the WA police commissioner confirmed a letter had been received.

"Mr Spratt is now coming out saying he had memory loss and back pain and he's suffered for two years," Mr Armstrong told Fairfax Radio.

"I can tell you, a month later he certainly apologised to the commissioner and the officers for his behaviour and his behaviour is normal for a person who has a violent history."

But, on Wednesday, Mr Spratt said he was disgusted by the WA officers' actions during the August 2008 incident.

The two officers responsible have so far escaped criminal prosecution but have been fined a combined total of $1950 following a police disciplinary hearing into the incident.

Mr Spratt said he was disgusted the two officers had not been stood down.

"They don't deserve to hold a weapon like that if they're just going to use it like it's a water pistol," he told the West Australian.

"It's humiliating for me and disgusting."

In its report, the WA Corruption and Crime Commission found the father of seven did not remember the incident and, therefore, would not be able to give evidence in court.

It has also been revealed that a week after Mr Spratt was tasered by police officers, he was subjected to similar treatment by corrective service officers.

Department of Corrective Services have confirmed Mr Spratt was tasered 11 times on September 6 when they tried to "extract" him from his cell at the East Perth Lockup.

"The prisoner was said to be acting in an irrational and violent way. He was in an observation cell and unrestrained," a spokesman said.

According to the department, Mr Spratt refused to co-operate with the officer despite "verbal negotiations and clear instructions to allow officers to restrain him".

"He did not obey these instructions and continued trying to bite and otherwise injure the officers and resisted all attempts to restrain him even when the team entered the cell."

The department reviewed the incident and deemed the actions taken by the staff were "appropriate and in accordance with current policies and procedures in regards to this incident," the spokesman said.



http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8100413/man-tasered-24-times-in-two-weeks

[fourseven]

No surprise really. Any opportunity for a fucking handout.

How's Spratt's brother's form on the news... "I can't believe a human was treated like this", yet both brothers are violent re-offenders.

pingpingpingpings.

[Alt_F4]

pingpingpingpings get what they deserve 99.9% of the time.
Any one who thinks otherwise lives in a fantasy world.

[BOSS 290]

Taser's aren't a compliance tool, what the fuck is wrong with everyone? They're a substitute to a gun; that is, it gets used when you're in fear of your life.

I'd like those officers who tasered the fella in jail to be tasered 9 times as well. Just so they can get a taste of their own medicine. What ever happened to hand combat or the use of battens? Everyone thinks it's funny because it's happened to a coon but what if you were on the receiving end?

ninja32, what made the cops pull their tasers on you?

[Wozzernux]

Just stumbled across this article:

Source: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/police-officer-faces-sack-over-tasers/story-e6frfku0-1225941840147? (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/police-officer-faces-sack-over-tasers/story-e6frfku0-1225941840147?)


Police officer faces sack over Tasers

A 53-YEAR-OLD Perth police sergeant with 36 years experience faces the sack for allegedly using Taser stun guns on fellow officers during initiation rituals.

The officer from the Rockingham Police Station, in Perth's south, has been served with a loss of confidence notice following an internal police investigation.

The notice requires the officer to show cause why Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan should not lose confidence in him as prescribed under the Police Act, police said in a statement today.

The officer has 21 days to reply and his response must undergo an extensive review process before a final decision is reached.

The sergeant has been with WA Police for more than 36 years.

The internal investigation into the conduct of a senior constable involved in the same matter was continuing, police said.

Both officers were stood down on full pay when the investigation began three months ago.

Two constables were also confined to office duties during the investigation.

It's alleged officers discharged Tasers directly against the bodies of colleagues to deliver a painful shock as part of an initiation ritual or for punishment.

In July, Assistant Commissioner Steve Brown said such misuse of Tasers was unknown elsewhere in WA and the alleged misconduct among a small group at Rockingham did not indicate a broader problem within the force.

WA Police this month were criticised over Tasers after video footage was released showing an unarmed Aboriginal man being stunned multiple times while surrounded by nine officers in the Perth Watch House in August 2008.

Mr O'Callaghan has said that incident was inexcusable but he has defended general WA Police use of Tasers, saying they were a safer alternative to shooting offenders with firearms.

Hate to admit it, but that's Rocko spec for ya haha... somehow I don't have much of a problem with cops tasering each other though.

[schnoods]

Probably told the newbies that its to help build the immunity up against electricity lol.


need to modify guns to look like tazers.. there maybe afew more tazer related deaths though. couldnt happen to more deserving people.

Spot on, a fire arm pointed at someone would probably get more cooperation.

[Fukushima]

crack heads will not cooperate with anyone

would be happy for them to bring back the baton

[shifted]

Just let them shoot.... at non-fatal areas of the body

[fourseven]

Taser's aren't a compliance tool, what the fuck is wrong with everyone? They're a substitute to a gun; that is, it gets used when you're in fear of your life.

I'd like those officers who tasered the fella in jail to be tasered 9 times as well. Just so they can get a taste of their own medicine. What ever happened to hand combat or the use of battens? Everyone thinks it's funny because it's happened to a coon but what if you were on the receiving end?

ninja32, what made the cops pull their tasers on you?

A taser IS a compliance tool and that is what they were manufactured for. The Police Commissioner, the Police minister and the media are idiots to think otherwise. While they claim they aren't used for compliance tools, everyone knows they are and so they should.

Hand combat is no good. With the amount of crackheads on the streets these days, hand combat will usually end in tears, especially with a lack of training. Batons are useless for the same reason... when you're high or drunk the pain from getting cracked around the back of the legs is negligible.

There is a pretty simple method for avoiding being on the painful end of a taser... follow Police instructions. Doesn't get much simpler!

PS - there is no such thing as a substitute to a firearm.

[Fukushima]

karl on insight (sbs) at the moment

sounding very insightful

[BOSS 290]

A taser IS a compliance tool and that is what they were manufactured for. The Police Commissioner, the Police minister and the media are idiots to think otherwise. While they claim they aren't used for compliance tools, everyone knows they are and so they should.

Hand combat is no good. With the amount of crackheads on the streets these days, hand combat will usually end in tears, especially with a lack of training. Batons are useless for the same reason... when you're high or drunk the pain from getting cracked around the back of the legs is negligible.

There is a pretty simple method for avoiding being on the painful end of a taser... follow Police instructions. Doesn't get much simpler!

PS - there is no such thing as a substitute to a firearm.

I agree they are being used as compliance tools, but they're not being advertised as compliance tools by the police, police minister and media. Therein lies the problem for the police. And until the police, government and media change their mantra the public will demand the police who use these devices as compliance tools be fucked over and kicked out of the police force.

The commissioner is a hypocrite saying the conduct of the officers is not acceptable yet releasing a dirt file on Kevin Spratt.

A bullet to the knee cap is a very good compliance tool.

[fourseven]

A bullet to the knee cap is a very good compliance tool.

QFT!