How young is too young (taser related)

10 seems young to me but then 15 doesn't so it depends which end of that spectrum they were at.
 
LabR@t said:
https://news.sky.com/story/how-old-were-the-targets-of-police-tasers-in-your-area-11588513

It looks like Norfolk police tasered someone aged 10-15, Jesus that seems a low much right? I expected Liverpool to be low (13), but I guess Norfolk police are just rubbish.

Personally I think under 16 is wrong, how long until they kill someone? How many deaths by tasers so far?
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Trouble is, they probably are not permitted to restrain the little wotsits in any other way.

This has been happening in the US for years.

Teachers cant spank kids any more (or even touch them)

So if a child has a tantrum, they have to call the police.

The police cant touch them either.

So out come the tasers!


You reap what you sow! :/
 
So how do you propose to ask someone who is being violent/ acting aggressively to prove their age before they hurt themselves, a member of the public or a police officer.

What are your other suggestions to handle situations like these then?

My son when he was 14 could grow a beard and was 6ft tall. In no way did he look 14.
 
If he was fifteen years old and armed, say with a knife, then a taser makes sense I guess. But I would hope any male police officer should be able to physically overpower a 15 year old. Let alone 10-12. Perhaps the youth was part of a group, but even then that group could respond to taser use just as well.

I remember arguing with the usual suspects about tasers back in the day where they endlessly insisted tasers were great because they were less lethal than firearms. And we all kept saying they wont be used in lieu of firearms but to lower the boundary for force. Which was endlessly dismissed and has been endlessly proved right since.
 
The Police force recruit officers and then train them to make a decision based on a situation in hand with the power they are allowed to use. If said Police officer sees it as necessary to taser a 10 - 15 year old then so be it i guess.
 
vanandjuanunited said:
So how do you propose to ask someone who is being violent/ acting aggressively to prove their age before they hurt themselves, a member of the public or a police officer.

What are your other suggestions to handle situations like these then?

My son when he was 14 could grow a beard and was 6ft tall. In no way did he look 14.
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One of those things I always found bizarre, I'm 42 and still can't. Getting there though.
 
I'm sure a 10 year old with a weapon is a threat, I would rather police taser the little scrotes ass than risk another police officer injured in the line of duty, when are people going to realise this powder puff upbringing of kids is creating major issues down the line.

That said poor little bobby will now be a hero amongst his mates and his parents will have the compo to live on for a while, you reap what you sow in reality and this is our utopian future that we've been aiming for.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Good, that is both weird and pointless.
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Yes, because obviously it is far better to call the cops on an unruly child, taser them, and have them end up with an official police report on their record than just give them a spank on the arse.

Yes, things are so much better today!

After all, back in the 60's Schoolkids were running around shooting and stabbing each other, assaulting teachers and dealing drugs in the school playground with impunity all the time and now society has seen enlightenment, none of that sort of thing happens today...!

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I will stand by my point that touching kids and spanking them is weird and pointless.

I am not advocating calling police instead, there are ways to discipline children other than violence, i experienced it growing up.

Despite what you think, there was tons of youth crime and gang culture. Football hooliganism and related violence was rife in the 80s. The rosie days of touching/spanking kids and no violent crime did not exist.
 
Behaviour that is dangerous to others doesnt become less or more dangerous based on the age of the individual.

The way they are treated after the danger has been neutralised might well be different, but that's a separate discussion.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
I will stand by my point that touching kids and spanking them is weird and pointless.

I am not advocating calling police instead, there are ways to discipline children other than violence, i experienced it growing up.

Despite what you think, there was tons of youth crime and gang culture. Football hooliganism and related violence was rife in the 80s. The rosie days of touching/spanking kids and no violent crime did not exist.
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The 60's were very different to the 80's

The effects of mass immigration (!) didn't really start to bite until the mid/late 70's

The infamous "Operation Swamp" (Broardwater farm) was a police response to a wave of a type of criminal activity (So called "Street Crime") that today we are told to expect as a routine part of day to day life in big cities and yet, before the 1970's was essentially unheard of...

But that is another issue really....
 
So tell me when corporal punishment ended in school and how that correlates to these non existent crime free times?

Also LOL at blaming mass immigration for the rise of things like football hooligan violence. I believe many outside of the UK referred to it as 'the English disease' for a time.
 
Orionaut said:
Teachers cant spank kids any more (or even touch them)

So if a child has a tantrum, they have to call the police.

The police cant touch them either.

So out come the tasers!


You reap what you sow! :/
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Lets be honest the type of kid that would require tasering is not the type of kid that is going to be that bothered by being smacked by a teacher. I dont doubt he gets treated like crap at home either.
vanandjuanunited said:
My son when he was 14 could grow a beard and was 6ft tall. In no way did he look 14.
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You're not talking about a Syrian refugee you adopted are you? ;)
 
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