Sound is Excessive?
- A lawsuit regarding the New York Police Department’s use of sound cannons can move forward after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that it may be considered a form of excessive force.
Judge Robert Sweet ruled there is a “cognizable claim” the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights may have been violated by the excessive use of force.
The lawsuit was filed by six people who said they experienced migraines and hearing damage after the police used the sound cannons during the 2014 protests surrounding the police chokehold death of Eric Garner.
We guess it's back to truncheons, water cannons, tear gas, and pepper.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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When all is said and done, we find that before deadly force, the most effective deterrent is a wood shampoo delivered with a cocobolo nightstick. What the CPD calls a "turban", we call a "Bronx party hat".
That's ok...
Take everything except the basics away.
Every Policeman might have to be more or less
the modern equivalent of a WW2 era U.S. Marine
as far as hands-on combat skill is concerned.
Your average street criminal is bigger,
stronger, meaner and more vicious than
he's ever been.
So from where we stand, joint crushing,
limb dislocation/breaking,
100% all-in kicks, punches, elbow
and knee strikes, ear/eye slaps and other
"unfair" alley fighting techniques like
"the bald armpit," hair torn out
by the handful, snatching an ear off,
and the old "we wear hard soled, reinforced
biscuit-toe leather boondocker type boots
for damned good reasons" will have to be
reintroduced to The Police repertoire.
Bring back the old 15" double-stuffed,
triple stitched beaver-tail sap...
Fast as lightning and nowhere
near as attention getting as those
garbage-wood batons we carry.
"YEAH! LET'S FIGHT!"
>KER-WHAP! Dick-Hits-Dirt-Real-Hard! Poot!<
-Handcuffs-
"I'm sorry ossifer... Dat shit
I been smokin' kinda gets in
front of me sometimes. We cool?"
It never ends.
The Police "chokehold death"???
The J/O had a heart attack, he wasn't choked out! Assholes!
Weren't they also going to use microwaves to scorch protesters?
I can imagine the lawsuits about using that.
How about real old fashioned cannons? "Give them a whiff of the grape!"
I guarantee it will break up the demonstration.
You do realize that the anti-war demonstrations pretty much ended after Kent State?
Imagine that. What's old is new again. Next thing you know, racking a 12 gauge on the domestic you've been to 3x wasting the city's tax dollars will make sense again
Water balloons?
Ah, the good old days return in the true "circle of life."
That means we can you force against those low riders with those huge amplifiers, right?
Better brush up on your martial arts skills because it won't be long before you can kiss your guns, batons, pepper spray and tazers goodbye. Oh, and pick up a pair of those fur lined handcuffs at the sex shop before the price goes up out of sight on them.
Damn! Gets harder and harder to be a good cop in a fucked up liberal democrat sanctuary city all the time! The good taxpaying citizens leave and all that's left are tax suckers, criminals and illegal aliens with their own screwed up cultures!
Too bad their cultures don't include self responsibility, respect for others and respect for the law!
J.J.
So you can illeagly protesy and still have rights when you break the law. If you bring out the water cannon you know that they will sue cause you gave them a needed shower.
He is a liberal.
From Wikipedia:
Judge Sweet was appointed to the federal court for the Southern District of New York by President Jimmy Carter and confirmed in 1978. He semi-retired into senior status in 1991.[2] One of Sweet's law clerks was Eliot Spitzer, who later became Governor of New York.[3]
More on Judge Sweet
Sweet has expressed strong opposition to the United States War on Drugs, saying the drug war is "expensive, ineffective and harmful" and that only "gangs and cartels benefit from current drug laws".[7] In an interview with PBS, he said that the mandatory minimum sentence for drug offenses violates due process and separation of powers.[8] With co-author Edward A. Harris he contributed a chapter[9] to Jefferson Fish's book How to Legalize Drugs.
Sweet is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and serves on its advisory board.
Someone should pee test him
Should be a confetti cannon or a rainbow colored disco ball with unicorns and rainbow shapes.
The military has long known that sound can be a dangerous, even lethal weapon.
truncheon...SAT word of the day.
How about old fashioned cannons?............. It would be interesting to see how quick chain shot would clear a street protest!
Forget weapons of delicate impact, show up armed with Job Applications and Welfare Abatement Orders.
Clears out feral populations every time.
NYPD was once on the forefront in law enforcement strategy, equipment, innovation and above all camaraderie.
Not anymore, it's a losing battle in NYC with DicBlosio and further decimation can be gauranteed if this sackless jackass doof wins another term, even though they have a 2 term limit, NYPD may have to wait as long as 2021 to get rid of the rahmtwit.
What's next tazer will be excessive use next?
So OK, now that a judge has ruled about the noise being a weapon. Can we lock up protesters that use a bullhorn right next out ears?
Back before NATO, and Mc Cathy was Superintendent he wanted to see a demo of the LRAD, he did see it and said that it would never be used while he was in charge, so what do they do with it now, they use it as a PA system and drive down the beaches or at lakefront events to warn of upcoming bad weather,Great tool but pussy ass system here in Chicago.
Weren't officers also present? Do they get a piece of the pie? What did you say, boss?
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/inspector-finds-no-evidence-of-cheating-on-police-lieutenants-exam/
Watch out , LOU's Test Cleared.
"More on Judge Sweet
Sweet has expressed strong opposition to the United States War on Drugs, saying the drug war is "expensive, ineffective and harmful" and that only "gangs and cartels benefit from current drug laws".[7] In an interview with PBS, he said that the mandatory minimum sentence for drug offenses violates due process and separation of powers.[8] With co-author Edward A. Harris he contributed a chapter[9] to Jefferson Fish's book How to Legalize Drugs.
Sweet is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and serves on its advisory board."
The so called War on Drugs started during the Nixon Adminstration, was ramped up by Reagan.
50 years later what has it accomplished? We have the highest incarceration rate than any other Nation on Earth.
The Legal Cannabis Industry is one of the fastest growing commodities on the Stock Market.
Sweet's views might run counter to your myopic view on the war on drugs but the time to try something new is long overdue.
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