STG has it right! Without the men and woman of law and the hard work with putting their life's on the line... for all I might add, I couldn't do it, I don't have the guts.

Personalty, I'd rather be tasered than shot.

Look! They know what to do.

Go through the training they do?

I truss them above all.

But that's just my opinion.

TT

Cornflower. Would you rather they just use batons and guns?.

AH humanity, lets fry them on the footpath.
Police never get it wrong,innocents never get arrested.
We have never hanged the wrong man fry them.
Note the Christian love from a few, the burn them baby burn from our unthinking red necks.
Fact is 13 times and mentally ill, so burn the silly beggar?
And if the world looks at us?
A man died in prison transport cooked alive,, two deaths in a week from Tasers, can we blame any country any at all, for their laws.
That young car thief in my first post, he was flogged by a feral.
It happens, cultures exist in some forces that fail to remember criminals are not meant to die in custody.
Police are not required to execute car thieves mentally ill and rowdy fools.
Is there any chance STG any at all, the world is a better place because you did not go ahead and join the police?

Of course police need tasers. Sometimes words needs to be backed up.

However the tasers are for self defence, not for punishment. The second issue is where the police are aggressive and can't understand why people are aggressive back. Watching that incident on Bondi Beach, I wanted to stab them myself. You just don't talk to people like that.

Tasers have a place in confrontation and were introduced to avoid needless shootings.

There are policies that govern the use of tasers and most reasonable would agree in real life situations police may need to use tasers in self defence or in defending others.

This does not mean police should not be accountable should tasers be misused. The incident that was caught on camera clearly showed the detainee was down on the floor, continuing with the taser was completely unnecessary.

Police do have a difficult job and we should be supportive but we are not being supportive when good police are tainted by the actions of a few without having to face some sort of disciplinary action.

We are not a police state. The police work diligently on behalf of citizens not against them. Human error will always occur; it is how we respond that will define the integrity of our law enforcement bodies.

Yeah nice, Belly. Well done. I didn't go ahead with it because I knew I'd struggle with the child abuse aspect....in part.

But thanks, for insinuating I'm sorta of potential torturer sicko. I'd tell you to go ... yourself, but of course, I'LL get banned and you that damns my integrity gets away with it. Cheers. Last time I talk to you.