Questions is sort of stupid but why do police even use tasers? I’ve seen so many dash cam and body cam videos and where they just don’t work at all no matter how much the suspect gets shocked and then they pull out a gun and shoot the cops. I’m not trying to make some sort of “back the blue” or thin blue line argument I just honesty don’t get why tasers seem so ineffective
Gun related post because guns are effective
Tasers are in effective because they need to be able to:
Seat themselves into the skin to effectively form a current and transfer the shock. Easy to do when pushing two metal teeth into something, hard to do when shooting tiny hooks at someone. Clothes makes this even more difficult ugly and large hooks would be seen as barbaric.
Be strong enough to debilitate while not so strong as to kill or permanently disable. This varies from human to human, unfortunately. Tasers hurt like a motherfucker but some people can take a lot more shocking than others.
Police are dog shit shots, on average. Even at that close range, and if they miss there’s a hot minute between reloads.
So fuck tasers, learn to debilitate people with your hands.