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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Valid point -- I think I probably got sucked into the title of the tread on that one by focusing on 12-year-olds, and I wasn't really meaning to do that. If a policy is going to start with a premise that absent certain circumstances, a child (or minor) shouldn't be tased, than a workable policy would certainly need to take into account in some way the officer's ability to tell or make reasonable judgments about a person's age. As DrPhil notes, this wouldn't be new.
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I'm sure DrPhil would be happy with the explanation that oops, the officer made a cross-racial age ID and thought she was in fact 4-5 years older than she actually was and oops, tased her. Simple mistake, right?
Definitely, the age of the subject should be a factor, but I wouldn't put it anywhere near the top. The size and behavior of the subject would be paramount as well as any other surrounding circumstances.
As Jerry Sandusky said, age is just a number. (too soon?)