The police officers involved in the Andrew Meyer Taser incident at the University of Florida have been reinstated after being cleared of any wrongdoing. So in honer of that I have decided to post the following poll:
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Small Sword Vs. Taser
TaserCam footage of police dealing with an obviously deranged man in a bathroom who holds a small sword/large knife to his own throat.
Although this guy more than likely never actually intended to do harm to himsef (most do this crap for attention) you can never really know. The situation ends well with the suspect walking out of the bathroom in handcuffs missing only his ego. No major injuries were received even after the Taser deployments.
This is an excellent example of protecting the officers and suspects lives with the Taser and rights with the camera. Complaints against the officers can usually be determined much easier with video evidence, TaserCam provides critical video from the officers point of view, this video also demonstrates the quality of the video and audio from such a small device.
I’ll shut up now, I’m sounding more and more like a Taser sales rep, maybe they’ll send me a check?
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Update: As I’ve predicted the Officers involved in this incident have been cleared and are returning to duty. Take a poll here.
I’ve posted a few videos on YouTube concerning the Andrew Meyer Taser incident. Now I knew I would not be popular with my position on the incident. After all the majority of the YouTube users are young liberals, many of which love a good conspiracy theory. At least that’s been my experience. However, I was astonished at the response I have received. In addition to the obligatory “your a fascist”, “troll alert”, “you’re part of Skull & Bones” and “you’re a Bush lover” comments, I’ve also received a few dozen messages threatening my life. Now of course I don’t take these seriously, mainly due to the all caps and mangling of the English language.
Anyway, I’ll get to the point. Amongst all of the controversy, insults and now death threats I have had some productive conversations with a rare few.
Some of whom have requested more information or explanations of the information I have presented. Rather then continue to try and provide a condensed version that fits withing the 500 character limit of the YouTube comments that also wont allow URLs to be posted, I have decided to simply post what I can here. With any luck someone will find it useful.
Additional information relevant to a few viewers and a few people participating in the discussion (comments)… Continue reading ‘Critical thinking and the Andrew Meyer Taser Incident’
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday.
The Iranian president, who is arriving Sunday to address the United Nations’ General Assembly, had asked the police department, the U.S. Secret Service and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey earlier this month for permission to visit the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, police spokesman Paul Browne said.
The police and Secret Service provide security to visiting heads of state.
The request to enter the fenced-in site was rejected because of ongoing construction there, Browne said. “Requests for the Iranian president to visit the immediate area would also be opposed by the NYPD on security grounds,” Browne said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said earlier Wednesday that the city was considering Ahmadinejad’s request, but Browne said about two hours later that Kelly had misspoke.
Kelly’s comments prompted outcry from politicians and families of Sept. 11 victims.
The Port Authority, which owns the trade center site and is the only agency that could grant Ahmadinejad permission to go inside, said it never received such a request, contradicting the police statement.
“We have not been asked to accommodate the president of Iran,” Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman said Wednesday.
It wasn’t clear whether Ahmadinejad wanted to descend to the base of the trade center site, where the fallen twin towers stood, or lay a wreath on a public sidewalk outside the site. Telephone calls to the Iranian Mission to the United Nations were not immediately returned.
Kelly earlier said he did not know why Ahmadinejad expressed interest in the site. “I am not sure we have the rationale behind it,” he said.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Wednesday that an Ahmadinejad visit to ground zero “is a matter for the city of New York, but it seems more than odd that the president of a country that is a state sponsor of terror would visit ground zero.”
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, told reporters Wednesday that the United States would not support Iran’s attempt to use the site for a “photo op.”
“Iran can demonstrate its seriousness about concern with regard to terrorism by taking concrete actions,” such as dropping support for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and suspending their uranium enrichment program, Khalilzad said.
Iran and the U.S. have not had diplomatic relations since Washington cut its ties with Tehran after Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. The Bush administration has accused Iran of arming Shiite Muslim militants in Iraq and seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
In a television appearance earlier this week, Ahmadinejad said his country wanted peace and friendship with the United States, despite mounting tensions between the two countries.
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Use of force continuum
Some information from Wikipedia
It may be known by any of several names, such as Control Continuum, Level-of-Force Model, Subject Resistance Matrix, etc..
A use of force continuum is a standard that provides law enforcement officials (such as public and private police officers, probation officers, corrections officers, and security officers) with guidelines as to how much force may be used against a resisting subject in a given situation. The purpose of these models is to clarify, both for officers and citizens, the complex subject of use of force by law officers. They are often central parts of law enforcement agencies’ use of force policies. Although various criminal justice agencies have developed different models of the continuum, there is no universal standard model.[1]
The first examples of use of force continua were developed in the 1980s and early 1990s.[2] Early models were depicted in various formats, including graphs, semicircular “gauges”, and linear progressions. Most often the models are presented in “stair step” fashion, with each level of force matched by a corresponding level of subject resistance, although it is generally noted that an officer need not progress through each level before reaching the final level of force. These progressions rest on the premise that officers should escalate and de-escale their level of force in response to the subject’s actions.[3]
Although the use of force continuum is used primarily as a training tool for law officers, it is also valuable with civilians, such as in criminal trials or hearings by police review boards. In particular, a graphical representation of a use of force continuum is useful to a jury when deciding whether an officer’s use of force was reasonable.[4]
Contents
- Example model
- Notes
- References
- Links
Example model
This model is adapted from a United States government publication on use of force.[5] It lists multiple tactics in order from least to most severe, but is only a partial model, as it does not give corresponding degrees of subject resistance.
- Verbal command
- Handcuff suspect
- Search suspect
- Use wrist/arm lock
- Use takedown
- Block/punch/kick
- Strike suspect
- Wrestle suspect
- Pepper spray
- Use baton
- Use firearm
Notes
Stetser, 2001, p. 36.
- Stetser, 2001, p. 36
- Stetser, 2001, pp. 36-37
- Stetser, 2001, p.38
- Grossi, 2006
- Garner and Maxwell.
References
* Garner, Joel H.; Maxwell, Christopher D.. Measuring the Amount of Force Used By and Against the Police in Six Jurisdictions (PDF). National Institute of Justice.
* Grossi, Mark (June 2, 2006). Setting the record straight on force continuums. The Police Marksman Magazine.
* Stetser, Merle (2001). The Use of Force in Police Control of Violence: Incidents Resulting in Assaults on Officers. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing L.L.C.. ISBN 1-931202-08-7.
External link
* Law Enforcement Police Integrity - United States Department of Justice
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Some people are just f’n stupid!
I’ve seen people do some pretty stupid things when they are runk, but these women are pushing the limits of human stupidity. It may be a safe assumption that it’s just the intoxication causing their actions.
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One of the things I just can’t keep my mouth shut about is people in the United States refusing to learn or speak English. I don’t even mind if it’s poor English so long as it’s English. When I stopped in at a local convenience store I walked by a couple of guys talking by the entrance. I would not have even noticed if not for the fact they were blocking the entrance and acted as if they did not need to move for me to enter. By the time I picked up a few items I noticed the clerk was having a problem with a Hispanic male. Speaking loudly in Spanish he was getting angry with the young female clerk who obviously could not understand. What little Spanish I do understand is trivial and most would not exactly be considered polite - I recognized a few of those remarks remarks shouted at the clerk.
Trying not to interfere, I patiently waited behind the man while he yelled at the clerk and insulted her. After a few minutes I asked the guy to move along which he did not take very well. At this point I realized he was the same guy who had been standing in the entrance talking to another guy - in English. One can only speculate as to the reason the same guy is now acting as if he does not understand or speak English and acting insulted that neither myself or the clerk speak Spanish. After about five minute of this guy yelling he finally decided to leave the store, knocking a small display off the counter and flipping me off. While the nervous clerk rang up my items I watched the guy go out to his full size Ford truck with Mexican tags. He sat in the truck for a few moments and then came back in with the other guy he had been conversing with earlier.
The second guy started screaming about racism and that he was going to call the company and file a lawsuit because his friend could not shop in there, no one spoke Spanish, and there were no “Mexican signs”. I recall several trips to Mexico. Other than around the border there were no signs in English and no prices marked in English a the shops I visited. Although there were some English speaking people scattered about, it was not enough to count on. If I needed something I absolutely needed to have some way to ask for it. If I did not I had to move on in search of someone who could understand me.
Whether the clerk called or they just happened in on a well timed coffee break, the police arrived and got involved. After a while the main antagonist’s English skills became extraordinarily proficient, this may have had something to do with the handcuffs coming out. The officers decided to let both of the guys go despite being illegal immigrants and both having warrants from Arizona. The police made both of them leave.
So far I have had to wait in line an extra ten minutes, have an argument with an illegal immigrant, wait around for the cops to talk to me, been cussed out in Spanish, and watched criminals leave without arrest. I was getting a little angry. And then some guy starts yelling about how we were mean for harassing the Mexicans.
“Leave them alone you fascists, they just want a better life and to be treated like everyone else.”
When I turn around I see a man wearing a shirt with a cartoon of President Bush as Hitler and another man wearing a “9/11 was an inside job” shirt.
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If you don’t know why this is here than you probably don’t care.
CRIMINAL OFFENSES
(720 ILCS 5/) Criminal Code of 1961.
(720 ILCS 5/Art. 14 heading)
ARTICLE 14. EAVESDROPPING
(720 ILCS 5/14?1) (from Ch. 38, par. 14?1)
Sec. 14?1. Definition.
(a) Eavesdropping device.
An eavesdropping device is any device capable of being used to hear or record oral conversation or intercept, retain, or transcribe electronic communications whether such conversation or electronic communication is conducted in person, by telephone, or by any other means; Provided, however, that this definition shall not include devices used for the restoration of the deaf or hard?of?hearing to normal or partial hearing.
(b) Eavesdropper.
An eavesdropper is any person, including law enforcement officers, who is a principal, as defined in this Article, or who operates or participates in the operation of any eavesdropping device contrary to the provisions of this Article.
(c) Principal.
A principal is any person who:
(1) Knowingly employs another who illegally uses an
eavesdropping device in the course of such employment; or
(2) Knowingly derives any benefit or information from the illegal use of an eavesdropping device by another; or
(3) Directs another to use an eavesdropping device illegally on his behalf.
(d) Conversation.
Continue reading ‘Illinois Eavesdropping Law’
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The 24 year old only son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested for being stoned in a hybrid Toyota after being pulled over for speeding down a highway at 100 miles per hour. Okay, they called it “Suspicion of Drug Possession”. Can a hybrid even do 100 MPH?
According to sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino the Deputy smelled marijuana in Al Gore III’s eviromentally friendly car. A search of the vehicle turned up a virtual pharmacy including a small amount of marijuana in addition to Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. Of course, there were no prescriptions found to go along with the party stash. Surely the courts will go easy on him for offsetting the marijuana’s hydrocarbon emissions with the use of a hybrid vehicle. Even at 100MPH it has to be less than your average “Intergalactic Ghetto Battle Cruiser”.
Although Al the 3rd was sober enough to identify himself as the former presidential hopeful turned environmental alarmist’s son, the sheriffs spokesman stated he received no special treatment.
It seems Gore did not spend all of his cash on dope or had saved enough on gas with his hybrid Toyota to afford the $20,000 bail and was released after about 12 hours in the pen.
Reuters seems to think it is relevant to mention a car accident the former presidential candidate’s some had been in when he was 6…
In 1989, aged six, Gore almost died when he was hit by a car, and required extensive surgery and physical therapy.
We can’t really blame Reuters for focusing on things like the car and the 1989 accident. After Daddy focused on the accident in his self Oscar winning fear generator. If only he had been arrested earlier maybe he could have had some Jail Time with Paris Hilton.
The sad truth is that this story will probably get mores links and Diggs than my stories on Education and Weapons of Mass Destruction. But my dear readers may prove me wrong on that?
Last but not least what do you think will happen to the stoner?
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All too often we see videos depicting the “bad Apple” of law enforcement. As with any field there will be some bad people involved. This short video is a sobering look at what officers go through. The majority of police officers are good people who choose a very stressful and dangerous job. I have been there, I know what it’s like. The police do deserve more respect and I hope this video will show why.
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