A sergeant with the Nogales (Arizona, natch...) Police Department has resigned after allegedly using a taser on a fellow officer last month. Nogales Chief of Police Jeff Kirkham said that on Feb. 8, Sgt. Sergio Bon had "some sort of issue" with a subordinate, at which point Bon pulled out a Taser and used it on the officer.
There may have been some "kidding" involved, Kirkham said. ... [LINK]
This is exactly the sort of attitude that you would expect based on the so-called training. If this is what happens within the police department, magine what happens on the street! It's a tip-of-the-iceberg sign of much deeper and more-widespread very serious problems...
The first step to reducing the evil of tasers would be to examine the so-called training and make sure that the attitude being passed along is aligned with common sense (it's not a harmless toy, it is a weapon that is potentially deadly).
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