Reply #28: So where's the accountability? [View All]

If you're denying there's a problem with how Tasers are being used, I won't even waste my time arguing with you.

If you're not in denial, how can you support this? What keeps them from being abused? What happens to officers that abuse them? I don't mean what is on the books, I mean in reality, what usual consequences are there? And what do we do about death from Taser use and abuse?

Until these issues are resolved, and they certainly are not resolved at this point, no officer should be out there with a Taser.

Personally I have seen little accountability in my life when it comes to the police. They are too quick to defend their own. There is little external oversight, and most of even what little external oversight there is has no real punitive power, or if the power is there, it gets used only in the most blatant and horrific of circumstances.

I don't even think this is a matter of a few bad apple cops. I think it's a problem with the established criteria for using Tasers.

I don't agree that Tasers should be allowed just because an officer wants to get custody of a subject (who may or may not be guilty of anything).