Thursday, November 02, 2006



They can't be trusted

Yet another reason not to trust the police with tasers: a group of police in Whakatane have been accused of beating a prisoner in the cells. Pepper spray was of course involved. And if they have tasers, they'll be giving prisoners 50,000 volts instead.

7 comments:

If you are being beaten up by the police I would suggest the big problem is that you are being beaten up as opposed to exactly what you are being beaten with.

Besides if one used a taser to subdue a person you might actually do less harm than if you used a more primitive method like a night stick or your bare hands to subdue them.

Posted by Genius : 11/02/2006 07:45:00 PM

I am not entirely sure I understand what the point you are trying to make is genius...

Posted by Sanctuary : 11/03/2006 09:40:00 AM

ROFL... presumption of innocence... sigh...

"well your Honour, we started out with a light shiatsu massage, and things just kind of got out of hand..."

Posted by Anonymous : 11/03/2006 08:39:00 PM

Sanctuary,

my point is - working on having a police force you can trust is a better strategy than cripling your own police force because you dont trust them.

Posted by Genius : 11/03/2006 08:48:00 PM

why pay money to a police force you expect to do more harm than good anyway?

Posted by Genius : 11/03/2006 08:54:00 PM

I/S your argument is specious.

Police have access to guns in cell blocks. By your analogy they could have shot him too (but they didn't).

Posted by Gooner : 11/04/2006 07:23:00 PM

Here is my sugestion.

As opposed to just not trusting our police force we should ensure we CAN trust our police force.

I suggest bugging every single one of them and all of their cars (you could do it to the politicians also!).

Recorded evidence (available to lawyers superiors and so forth) of every cough or tinkle that they make (the tape NEVER stops) thus zero change of them getting away with anything. And have VERY serious concequences (e.g. long jail terms in small concrete boxes) for any breach OR for having a missing second of evidence. (it becomes a major part of their job to ensue it is on at ALL times)

Then give them all the power they need since you know they can't abuse it.

Posted by Genius : 11/06/2006 07:06:00 AM