Since when did officers use tasers in schools?

[drewh4386]

Dozens of incidents in which police officers have used electric stun guns to subdue unruly students have led school officials around the USA to restrict the use of the devices on campus.
A Taser generates as average of 2,100 to 3,600 amps, depending on the type.
In Miami-Dade County, Fla., schools Superintendent Rudy Crew was inundated with complaints from parents in October after a police officer used a stun gun on a 6-year-old student. The child was waving a piece of glass and had been cut by it. Crew asked Miami-Dade Police Director Bobby Parker to ban the use of stun guns by officers who help provide security in elementary schools, and to use the devices, commonly referred to as Tasers, only as a last resort in middle and high schools.
"Certain tactics should never be used ... with young children," Crew wrote to Parker.
The student was not seriously injured, but the episode reflected rising concern about the safety of stun guns. Investigations by Amnesty International and The Arizona Republic have linked more than 100 deaths to the devices. Taser International, the nation's largest maker of stun guns, estimates that 1,700 cops assigned to U.S. schools carried the devices at the start of this school year. It's unclear whether any kids have died from stun-gun shocks. But reports of youths being zapped have increased as the guns — now used by 7,000 of the USA's 16,000 police agencies — have become more common in schools:

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...M_Exclude=Juno

[-Josh-]

hah, some of those little punks probably deserve it though.

[Rally Sport]

Some probably more than others do deserve it but I say use it grades 5 and above.

[fredjacksonsan]

Originally Posted by Z28Josh

hah, some of those little punks probably deserve it though.

Not at 6 years old, come on!

I can see it for high schoolers that are being threatening, but not for some 6 year old that's waving a piece of glass to show what cut him.

[sivic02]

Originally Posted by fredjacksonsan

Not at 6 years old, come on!

I can see it for high schoolers that are being threatening, but not for some 6 year old that's waving a piece of glass to show what cut him.

Exactly, if that officer was close enough to use the taser on him, he could have easily grabbed the kids arm and taken the glass away from him. I mean come on its a 6 year old kid. But yeah, middle and high school, sure, zap the unruly fuckers. I say zap them if they are disrespectful, give them to teachers....and the janitor...thatll keep the kids from messing with him.

[fredjacksonsan]

One point that we're missing is that it shouldn't have come to this. Those children that deserve to be tazed should have been better raised by their parents.....

[twospirits]

Then they should also taser the parents.

TS out

[Nicole8188]

How many other 6 year olds can pick up chicks with that line?

"You wanna see where I was tasered at?"

[fredjacksonsan]

Originally Posted by twospirits

Then they should also taser the parents.

TS out

(though true)

[sivic02]

Originally Posted by twospirits

Then they should also taser the parents.

TS out

damn, beat me to it!

[drewh4386]

who knows? by the way some of those kids act, their parents my have already been thru a few tasers. I just thought it was weird to taser a elementary child.

And nicole, more than you think. Just wait till they get older and remeber that. "bad boy all the way."