Taser Usage with Law Officers Responding to a Disturbance Call
Imagine if someone gets into an argument with someone else and the police are called. When the police arrive the person’s adrenaline is pumping and on top of that they are angry. At the same time they are trying to talk to the officer; the officer keeps telling them to calm down which they are trying to do. All of a sudden the officer shocks them with his taser. They become stiff has a board and fall forward. Now was it really necessary for the officer to use his taser? The taser gun causes no long term health damages, but that should not be taken as a green light for police to use them without an adequate reason.
A taser gun is a weapon that has two probes that penetrate into the skin and delivering a 50,000 volt shock to the body for five seconds. The shocks send electricity into your muscles causing them to pulsate 19 times harder per second. The current from a taser shock is dispersed through the......
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