Thermodolia wrote:Ifreann wrote:I believe the use of a shotgun taser was implicated in the death of a man in England. He had a gun to his own head, an officer used their shotgun taser, and he shot himself.
That doesn’t discount the use of tasers but shows that cops shouldn’t be responding to mental health emergencies

THIS is what's meant by "defunding the police." Nobody wants the police to be completely drained and dissolved - they want their excessive funding to be liquidated and redispursed to EMS, mental health professionals, etc and have the remaining funds cover non-lethal training, talk-down tactics, etc.









