Or read at all, for a lot of them. Then, there's the problem of Affluenza- the idiotic idea held by the Privileged that their prosperity is due to some kind of benign natural process that will continue no matter what. They don't know about or care about the generations of hard work that got them there, or that hard work is still needed to keep things going- like actual enforcement of laws. So, the dimwits tinker with the machinery, ignore the Gods of the Copybook Headings, and the result is Hard Times & Bad Luck.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Could the “no taser in the back” have been meant to be a prohibition against the drive stun, which doesn’t produce neuro-muscular incapacitation? A drive stun might create pain compliance, but in my (very limited) experience just caused the suspect to fight harder.
Of course, if you shooters somebody in the back with a taser and get good contact with both probes, the suspect’s muscles lock up and he/she falls forward on their face with no way to break their fall, which could result in injury.
Gotta suspect the motives of any ejected representative who is involved in passing a complicated and lengthy piece of legislation in the middle of the night with no time for prr Er pole to review the measure and little debate.
Remember when Taser was “causing cardiac arrest”? We changed our primary target to the back as opposed to the chest. Taser shots to the chest were discouraged. Of course none of the legislators who wrote the law has any idea about that. I like hitting the back because the muscles lock up so well. My favorite target was lower back/upper thigh. Back and hips muscles lock up really nice.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
I doubt it. I have seen the drive stun issue raised elsewhere specifically as its own issue. The politicians and activist groups share information, draft proposals, talking points, etc., ...there is a noticeable consistency in arguments and proposals across the county, although they get implemented differently.
"Back tasing" people is apparently its own issue, or perhaps just an incremental way to render the taser useless, which I have mixed feelings about anyway.
Sadly, you're correct on both accounts. Too many get really spun up over any perceived use of force from behind, likely over the hollyweird depiction of the West. Those same folks can't process shots, hits from the side that strike the back, posterior. And, they are - at the least - willfully ignorant of the "why" behind Taser best practices; although, I'd be fine if as a profession we dumped Tasers and returned to batons & OC - largely due to Bryan v McPherson.
Every now & then, you'll see a reporter who asks for, gets a response from an SME or RKI. It sure seems rare though. Even then, the SME/RKI won't get repeat play as the haters will. If one reads academic stuff on the use of force, you'll come across Geoffrey Alpert pretty quick. He's on the faculty at the Univ of South Carolina. I can think of one OIS in which he opined fairly early. The article quoted him going through the known facts and Alpert's opinion that based on them the shooting was objectively reasonable. He was never referred to again by that paper, those reporters.
I don't believe you will see any serious efforts to get the L/E perspective on these events into the media. It is why agencies and employee associations have to hit the community education aspect HARD before they have a use of force that's portrayed as "controversial."
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
One word, Chicago.
A lot of this bill is the reflection of misbehavior in the Second City, not all of it by the boys in blue. Whether the drunk police superintendent’s missing traffic stop video, the subway platform shooting or the blue wall of silence myth around another OIS on camera, an entire state’s worth of officers get thrown under the bus.
That is how it goes in Illinois. The good news is two governors in a row haven’t gone to prison. The last felon in chief was pardoned by Trump, so that one is now an asterisk of sorts.