lpast-
What I have seen of you in this thread is the typical combination of trite expressions, attempting to lecture civilians and dismissing people, me, who have some expertise on what it takes to handle pregnant women having a meltdown on the side of the road. I have 30 years of running with cops. Been buddies with several for all that time. Is how I got into Instructing and being the arrestee in training future LE. Oh the stories you cops tell during breaks in training... couple that with NTOA videos and my oh my some of the dumb things 'professional' LE do under stress/during a confrontation. The old dodge of "You weren't there" is rapidly running out with the increase of dash cams and mikes on cops. One of my cop buddies is the sheriff of the next county over, he fired a deputy for turning his mike off during a traffic stop.
Now about the trite everyone hates cops till you need one.
More to the point is everyone hates a punk cop, even when you need one.
moving on-
Tigger it is ignorant to think the only other chioce a cop has if you take the tasers away is to shoot someone.
It is also ignorant to think tasers will be taken away, but I do think the rules for their use needs to be spelled out in simple, small words because apparently some in LE can't understand bigger ones.
Again I state for all-
NO ONE has refuted this- no CERTFIED Instructor for non lethal detention/apprehension teaches it is ok to tase a pregnant woman in the neck.
Now if she has a death grip on the steering wheel a simple pressure point, and there are several available to the cop, has that death grip off faster than you can type it. (ask me how I know :shock: )
But that takes training, confidence not arrogance, a bit of psychical conditioning- fat boys are handicapped because they can't climb in and use their weight.
I don't hate cops, just have no love for the punk-a** ones. Some in LE need to be finding other kinds of work.