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I don't know about mace, but I have seen people claim that police who are tased before being able to use a taser are only electrocuted for a couple seconds wher

I don't know about mace, but I have seen people claim that police who are tased before being able to use a taser are only electrocuted for a couple seconds where as in the field police usually electrocute people for much longer. I imagine the same kind of thing would be done if they had to go through invasive searches. The searches wouldn't match reality.

thesis 11y ago
Much longer? What does that mean? 4 seconds, minutes, hours? Whenever I have seen people tazed by police, it seems over rather fast.
- DanBC 11y ago
  Training might be a single (machine timed) 5 second dose. You're held be two people, and drop onto a crash mat. Real life might be repeated tasings with no one to support you as you fall onto tarmac.
jMyles 11y ago
electrocuted?! TASERs kill a lot of people (more than one a week), but it's usually ostensibly not intentional.
- logfromblammo 11y ago
  I believe the technically correct term is "electrotetanized" when the current does not actually result in death.
  - jessaustin 11y ago
    This is something of a personal mission for you, isn't it? https://www.google.com/search?q=electrotetanized https://www.google.com/search?q=electrotetanized
    - logfromblammo 11y ago
      My personal mission is actually to destroy the word "amazing". Getting electrotetanized into the OED is more of a hobby. I don't know what's up with that fourth result, though.
- mordocai 11y ago
  Sorry, I almost put tasered because I didn't know the correct word and didn't feel like looking it up. Electrocuted sounded better in my head. Either way, obviously what I meant was clear to others.
rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
Of course they wouldn't match reality. Only reality can match the experience of being detained and violated without knowing when or if you will ever be allowed to leave. In an early episode of Star Trek Voyager, the emergency medical hologram subjects himself to a time-limited disease program ostensibly to better understand his biologc patients' suffering, but claims to do so to demonstrate that illness is no excuse for poor productivity. When the disease afflicts him for hours after the programmed end time, he freaks out. Later, his nurse tells him she extended the time, because "the worst part about pain is not knowing when it is going to end." Perhaps the best way to match reality is to drug the aspiring officers, stash "contraband" inside one of them, then subject all of them to the same invasive searching until the "drugs" are found. The "smuggler" then has to spend an undetermined amount of time (~1 week) in a jail (not prison, jails are for temporary holding) cell under an assumed crime in another district, as to ensure the jailers treat him or her the same way as any other criminal.
- sitkack 11y ago
  We wouldn't do that because there would be too much FoF violence. If the holding org found out the perp was a cop they would probably destroy the evidence.
  - rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
    Fake evidence. I'm not advocating the placement of cocaine baggies in anyone's hoo-ha.

thesis 11y ago

Much longer? What does that mean? 4 seconds, minutes, hours? Whenever I have seen people tazed by police, it seems over rather fast.

DanBC 11y ago
Training might be a single (machine timed) 5 second dose. You're held be two people, and drop onto a crash mat. Real life might be repeated tasings with no one to support you as you fall onto tarmac.

jMyles 11y ago

electrocuted?! TASERs kill a lot of people (more than one a week), but it's usually ostensibly not intentional.

logfromblammo 11y ago
I believe the technically correct term is "electrotetanized" when the current does not actually result in death.
- jessaustin 11y ago
  This is something of a personal mission for you, isn't it? https://www.google.com/search?q=electrotetanized https://www.google.com/search?q=electrotetanized
  - logfromblammo 11y ago
    My personal mission is actually to destroy the word "amazing". Getting electrotetanized into the OED is more of a hobby. I don't know what's up with that fourth result, though.
mordocai 11y ago
Sorry, I almost put tasered because I didn't know the correct word and didn't feel like looking it up. Electrocuted sounded better in my head. Either way, obviously what I meant was clear to others.

rm_-rf_slash 11y ago

Of course they wouldn't match reality. Only reality can match the experience of being detained and violated without knowing when or if you will ever be allowed to leave. In an early episode of Star Trek Voyager, the emergency medical hologram subjects himself to a time-limited disease program ostensibly to better understand his biologc patients' suffering, but claims to do so to demonstrate that illness is no excuse for poor productivity. When the disease afflicts him for hours after the programmed end time, he freaks out. Later, his nurse tells him she extended the time, because "the worst part about pain is not knowing when it is going to end." Perhaps the best way to match reality is to drug the aspiring officers, stash "contraband" inside one of them, then subject all of them to the same invasive searching until the "drugs" are found. The "smuggler" then has to spend an undetermined amount of time (~1 week) in a jail (not prison, jails are for temporary holding) cell under an assumed crime in another district, as to ensure the jailers treat him or her the same way as any other criminal.

sitkack 11y ago
We wouldn't do that because there would be too much FoF violence. If the holding org found out the perp was a cop they would probably destroy the evidence.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
  Fake evidence. I'm not advocating the placement of cocaine baggies in anyone's hoo-ha.