Detections of any drugs or anything of that nature on board. And on all eight instances medical examiner, discovered multiple drugs on board of the victim in those cases. I think that there are a number of factors that contribute to the injuries that we may be talking about that i dont think will be captured in one paragraph of a report. And before we go to the public comment, one last question, what is it now that is driving a push within the department for tasers . Is there a. Has the human heart changed over the past, you know, five years or so . Are we seeing dramatic increase in officerinvolved shootings compared to what we had before . Are we finding that despite what we see in terms of controversy that this is what is considered the best practices . What is actually driving this forward . You know, i think that the human heart in particular, the heart of this department has not changed. If you looked at the history, if you look at the history of the department, every chief start
Capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles and basically constricting your muscles. But mechanically, you fire something . There are two probes that come out of the Weapon System itself creating a positive and a negative contact. Once those or once that connection is made, then, electricity goes through the person for a cycle of up to 5 seconds. How long . We are talking about three amps of electricity, i believe, they are at 50,000 volts or so. But it is the amp rage that makes the impact not necessarily the volts itself. But what it does is captures the muscles and keeps the person from doing anything further. And have you ever been tased yourself . I am schedule to be tased sooner rather than later. The chief has been and i have. Based on his experience thus far. How do you feel about the posbility of being tase . . I would rather be tased than struck with a baton, we teach all as all do if you are going to deploy the baton you use it against the bony areas of a persons bo
Pain perception in many instances. With that being said, do i want to use weapons that are only about pain compliance or use a Weapon System that is about controlling and stopping that person from doing any further aggressive behavior than what they are doing and our policy is if you look at the policy. It is not about using the policy against someone who is simply noncompliant. That would be a violation of the policy. It is about using potentially that Weapon System against someone who is active, state of aggression towards the officers and or the public themselves. So, with that said, it is a Weapon System that controls as opposed to uses pain as a means of acquiring compliance. I have a couple of follow ups, but i know that the chair has a question. Actually this probably dove tails with his questions, but for all of us to really understand, could you explain how electronic controlled weapon, a taser works . It works by simply, capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles an
Simply noncompliant. That would be a violation of the policy. It is about using potentially that Weapon System against someone who is active, state of aggression towards the officers and or the public themselves. So, with that said, it is a Weapon System that controls as opposed to uses pain as a means of acquiring compliance. I have a couple of follow ups, but i know that the chair has a question. Actually this probably dove tails with his questions, but for all of us to really understand, could you explain how electronic controlled weapon, a taser works . It works by simply, capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles and basically constricting your muscles. But mechanically, you fire something . There are two probes that come out of the Weapon System itself creating a positive and a negative contact. Once those or once that connection is made, then, electricity goes through the person for a cycle of up to 5 seconds. How long . We are talking about three amps of electricity,
That Weapon System against someone who is active, state of aggression towards the officers and or the public themselves. So, with that said, it is a Weapon System that controls as opposed to uses pain as a means of acquiring compliance. I have a couple of follow ups, but i know that the chair has a question. Actually this probably dove tails with his questions, but for all of us to really understand, could you explain how electronic controlled weapon, a taser works . It works by simply, capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles and basically constricting your muscles. But mechanically, you fire something . There are two probes that come out of the Weapon System itself creating a positive and a negative contact. Once those or once that connection is made, then, electricity goes through the person for a cycle of up to 5 seconds. How long . We are talking about three amps of electricity, i believe, they are at 50,000 volts or so. But it is the amp rage that makes the impact not