KC police must now justify Taser incidents (Horn-honking granny etc)

[struggle4progress]

KANSAS CITY (AP) - Kansas City police must justify the use of a Taser stun gun under a policy adopted by the Board of Police Commissioners.

Police established a task force of community members and department personnel last year to look into the department’s policy on Taser use. That followed the disciplining of two officers for using a Taser in the arrest of a 66-year-old grandmother who honked her car horn at police.

The police board adopted the task force’s recommendations yesterday. <snip>

The new policy states: "If the Taser X-26 is used at this level, the officer is required to articulate in all reports the factors that justified its use; mere noncompliance" with officers’ orders "would not be adequate."

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/May/20050510News015...

[GreenArrow]

1. The 631 . . .the 411 . . . The 879 . . .

Skip the 653. The 872 . . .

[AspenRose]

2. Good Lord....grandmothers, pregnant women...

What the hell is going on?!?!?

[Megahurtz]

3. It's the Gestapo!

n/t

[saigon68]

4. It's WORSE---Its's a Bunch of RAMBO WANNABEES

With an us verses the scummy public perp mentality.

In spite of all the training and weeding out of the Nut and Psych cases, there are still a lot of these fools who apparently LOVE TO INFLICT TORTURE on Blacks, Mexicans, children, pregnant women and old ladies

[bennywhale]

5. Its used to

get compiance, not in dangerous situations.

Do as i say or a shit load of pain grandma

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[LiberalFighter]

13. They should be tasered until their brains are fried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am getting sick of these worthless incompetent so called law enforcement officers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. When she honked

the cops thought she was warning someone in the house who was selling drugs. THAT was their reason for tasering her. Can you believe it?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Even if she was

they could have stopped her without tasers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. yep

seems pretty obvious.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Have to agree with Saigon68

Sounds like a buncha he-man macho types who want to play Rambo with their new toys. Pricks.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. What is sad

is I know quite a few cops in KCMO and they are nice folks. This incident involved a few hairbrains.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. That's all it takes

There are good eggs and bad eggs in any profession. The bad ones get remembered.

[LiberalFighter]

14. They need to have a better hiring process

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. ...with serious screening for behavior disorders

like anger and aggression issues.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Whenever my students tell me

they will remember me, I tell them I hope not because when you get older you really remember the bad teachers the best.

[BiggJawn]

17. "You WILL comply with my Orders..."

Fuckers. OK, next time I'm in trouble, I *WILL* call a Hippy...