“I’m gonna give you one chance, then I’m gonna tase the hell outta you!”
Or not.
It sometimes seems as though the Taser falls short of its promise.
Invented and marketed as a revolutionary device that would safely and instantly incapacitate the most resistive or combative subject, the Taser works by firing two small barbed darts intended to puncture the skin and remain attached to the target. The darts are connected to the main unit by thin insulated copper wire, and when all goes according to plan they deliver a high-frequency, high-voltage, low-amplitude current that immediately stops a person by causing involuntary muscle contraction and neuromuscular incapacitation.
But everything depends on the connectivity of the darts. Without a good connection the effects may only be localized pain, and many things can interfere. As you might guess, one of the most common causes of interference is heavy clothing. In fact, it’s a bit surprising that the Cincinnati officer in this video deployed his taser, as Herbert’s jacket looked (and apparently was) rather Taser-proof.
Jack Cover, the inventor of the Taser, named the device after a book featuring his childhood hero, Tom Swift — Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Cover’s original “Taser Public Defender” used gunpowder as its propellant, which led the ATF to classify it as a firearm in 1976. Current Taser darts are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges.
According to a 2010 study by the DOJ over 15,000 law enforcement and military agencies around the world use Tasers as part of their use of force continuum. A study of use-of-force incidents by the Calgary Police Service conducted by the Canadian Police Research Centre found that the use of Tasers resulted in fewer injuries than the use of batons or empty hand techniques. Use of Tasers by the Seattle Police Department has been shown to reduce the odds of suspect injury by 48%, and data gathered from other agencies confirm a similar percentage decline in suspect injuries due to Taser deployment. Officer injuries have been impacted by Taser use as well — studies have found that in most agencies officer injuries were greatly reduced after Tasers were introduced as part of each particular organizations use of force continuum.
Although vast amounts of data support the positive benefits of Taser usage in law enforcement, there are also data which suggest that Taser usage has negatively impacted some individual police officers as well. The above-referenced study conducted in 2010 by the United States Department of Justice found that some officers may rely too heavily upon deploying a Taser during suspect encounters. The DOJ study refers to this negative trait in some police officers as “lazy cop” syndrome.
If the above text sounds familiar you have probably seen the Real World Police video titled “This is How a Taser is Supposed to Work.” If you haven’t seen that video and you want to see a textbook Taser deployment, I recommend checking it out, particularly ~1:00 to ~2:00. Direct link: http://tiny.cc/bzzzt
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Go brother go
And this is how cops act when on a mental health call. This is why the only cops are dead cops. Going to tase a man for refusing a psych hold. That's how pigs like to act when on mental health calls. This is why I say that cops should not respond to mental health calls. I recently had an incident where a therapist called the cops and lied saying I was actively trying to kill myself all because I had said that the noose knot has many different survival uses because it tightens. The cops without announcing themselves tried entering my house thankfully I had my door locked. When I opened the door and realized that it was the cops I closed my door and tried locking it they immediately opened my door before I could lock it. When I showed them I wasn't suicidal nor that I was hurting myself in anyway. They said that I was going to the hospital. With them having full view of what I was reaching for which was a bottle of alcohol they pulled there tasers on me and tried tasing me. They took me to the hospital and without giving me a chance to walk on my own the cop and security dragged me out of the car into the hospital and once in the hospital room threw me on the bed. I explained why the cops were called and that I wasn't suicidal. The hospital told me I either had to sign in or be committed. I later found out that the cops had lied saying that I was threatening them and that I had pulled a knife on them and that was why they pulled there tasers and acted the way they did when at the hospital. So people who think that cops should respond to mental health calls are about as dumb as can be
Im glad he escaped
I'm glad he's free (:<
Make Puffy coats illegal
Other cops need to take lessons from this cop
Their was no traffic lazy ass
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Lit 🔥 AsF Lol 😂 lol Lit 🔥 AsF 🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Haha guy at bottom of stairwell ( grey jacket) just literally stands there like – what's going on guys. .lmao 😂😂😂
My man was not 6’4
"Taser Taser Taser!" FAIL FAIL FAIL! LOL
Defitnely getting a puffy jacket LMAO
What a lazy ass cop". I just let him go since… There was a lot of traffic". Lmao one car goes by… One. Hell of a job officer. Smdh
Lol
3:41 when you find out you got after school detention
😂 idk if he was 6'4" but he sho was fastðŸƒ
I wonder if the sale of puffy jackets increased after this video came out. Fuck kevlar, you want *puffy*.
Whose the person that types in the description? Feel like it’s a teenager trying to act cool.
Psych wards dont help people, if anything they make it worse by stripping people of their freedom
Hahaha that cop needs to get back on the treadmill he was not up for a foot pursuit! I would have chased his ass down
Nice warning at the beginning!
Cop fucked up by deploying taser and then allowing him to run away. If you try and effect a detainment with force, you FOLLOW THROUGH. Now the guy actually has a defense and could potentially sue the department. So he was enough of a priority to TASE, but not chase across the street? Doesn't look good.
Why are we wasting so much resources on these dregs?
The guy that walked in the door at the bottom of the stairs was like oh shit what did I walk into.
Give him his check_ that's his rights in the constitution _"welfare Being"if they Dnt get checks its zombi land run and hide they all coming 2.5million zombies after yo asz😱😱😱😨🙈👣👣👣👻👇👈👉
1:37_1:46_Slavery_ Men got no Job now wana kill him feed him drugs in your institutions Jesus lord ove mercy.