Absurdity International

Base10 came across an article in Fox News about the successful deployment of Tasers by the Miami-Dade Police Department.  The Department has deployed the next generation of Taser guns.  The weapons temporarily incapacitate offenders and are non-lethal.  Once a hotbed of racially charged police shootings, Miami-Dade Chief John Timony noted that not a single shot was fired in the last 19 months.  Readers note that it's not persons shot but bullets shot.
 
Alas, the self-styled protector of civil rights around the world, Amnesty International believes that use of the Tasers should be banned.  Apparently they would prefer that officers shoot and kill those violent offenders instead of taking them in alive.   Whose rights are they looking after?
For more info look at the Taser website.
 
Chief Timony also happens to be a former First Deputy Commissioner in the NYPD under Bill Bratton.  He faced his ouster when Bratton fired by Mayor Rudy Giulliani and replaced with Howard Safir.  Timony publically called Safir a "lightweight."  Base10 not only admires Timony's way with words but also his judge of character!

- posted by Base10 @ 11:42 AM