No what these less lethals do is keep people from getting seriously hurt.

The less lethal is there to protect the officer from getting hurt by the bad guys. And to help protect people from them selves.

I will give you a few examples (real examples).
1. crazy guy with a knife is threatening to kill him self, by stabbing himself in the stomach. A taser is used to drop the subject before he can hurt himself or the officers sent there to help him.
2. Crazy guy in a car with a note pined to his chest has a knife and is going to cut his own throat. Most likely he was going to kill his girl friend as well. She was smart enough to jump from the moving vehicle. One of my dispatchers talked to the subject for 25 minutes until the officers could get close enough to the car to smash the window and taser the guy. Girlfriend lived, crazy guy lived and got some help, and officers lived. Was a good day at the office.
3. Crazy guy with a gun is threatening to kill himself or the officers. A been bag round takes him down and he went to jail, then to the mental hospital for a short stay. Again, no one killed, luckily.
4. Huge biker beating on his wife/girl friend. Officers show up and immediatly realise this guy will mop the floor with both of them, and proceeds to tell them this is his intenet. Pepper spray deployed. Big guy is now unable to see. Subject arrested with out having to get stiches or bullet holes repaired. Of course girlfriend jumped on cop's back for arresting biker, and she got to come to the grey bar motel as well.

Less lethals are a great tool to keep officers and suspects alike alive and un hurt.


Officers deploy force when they have to.

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