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Iraqi president frees all prisoners, except 'spies'
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Cow crap and diesel.... I *knew* it had to be developed in an Iraqi weapons lab!
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A great way to throw away a med school education. Sick bastard.. a life sentence would be too kind.
The boyfriend needs to be tried as an adult. And the girl needs a head examination for agreeing in the first place.
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Re: hafta plug my own article!!
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Curbing the use of deadly force
By Rhonda Sciarra Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted on October 20, 2002
Buffalo Grove police today pack beanbag bullets that slam into skin like a 90-mph fastball.
Elgin cops can shoot pepper balls, which leave a nasty bruise and make it hard to see or breathe.
Tasers that stun suspects with 50,000 volts of electricity are now in the hands of Wood Dale police.
More and more, suburban police stock their arsenals with an array of less-lethal weapons.
The new weapons increasingly give police an alternative to deadly force and allow them to simply capture a suspect -- as they did in a standoff with a Des Plaines man in March 1999.
The man said he wanted to die, and he wanted Des Plaines police to be the ones who killed him.
Police call it "suicide by cop."
Officers surrounded the man's apartment after his wife called because he was threatening to take his life.
Six hours of negotiations went nowhere. The man became even more unstable and inched toward police with a butcher knife.
"If I come forward, you will have no choice but to shoot me," the 49-year-old with a history of health problems told the officers.
They fired three rounds that knocked the man to the ground.
He ended up with a bruise and an aggravated assault charge -- his life spared by a beanbag bullet.
"This gives us another option in dealing with people like this," Des Plaines Deputy Police Chief Bill Schneider said.
Police used force in less than 1ćpercent of all calls for service in 2001, the International Association of Chiefs of Police said in a report released in January.
But police are encountering more people willing to put up a fight and challenge officers, authorities said.
"They continue to arm themselves and create dangerous situations on the streets," said Libertyville police Sgt. Edward Mohn, a member of the board of the Illinois Tactical Officers Association.
That's where less-lethal weaponry comes in, said Mohn, who has seen offenders push police to use deadly force in his work in Libertyville and as a Northern Illinois Police Alarm System tactical team leader.
"It is better for everyone involved if we can accomplish our mission, which is to provide safety and protection, and take these people in custody with a lower level of force," he said.
Less-lethal technology, such as the beanbags, has been a staple mostly for state and county corrections departments and multi-departmental tactical teams.
But that is changing.
Police in the suburbs now find themselves in more situations where these weapons can come into play.
"You don't want to be waiting for a tactical response team to come out," Streamwood Deputy Police Chief Al Popp said. "If we have the technology that's available, that's proven and simple to use, we believe it's our responsibility to get that out to the officers and community."
Shocked and stunned
"It's like touching an electric horse fence, only longer," Wood Dale police officer Chris Banaszynski told officers at a September training class about being zapped with the Advanced Taser M26.
The Advanced Taser M26 looks like a handgun.
Using compressed-nitrogen air cartridges, the device propels two barbed darts, trailing thin wires, up to 21 feet.
The wires embed themselves in an attacker's skin and shock him with electricity that immobilizes muscle groups, incapacitates him and lets police subdue him.
The Wood Dale Police Department, which covers a village of about 13,000 people, bought seven of the weapons this summer at a cost of $400 each.
After a second training session Oct.ć5, the weapons are on the street. In three to four years, all of the department's 25 patrol officers will carry one.
The Schaumburg, Vernon Hills, Gurnee and Cook County sheriff's police departments are testing and evaluating the weapons.
Chicago police announced in September they will supply each of the department's 75 sectors with a Taser.
Other departments that have added Tasers to their arsenals include Bloomingdale, Elk Grove Village, the Lake County sheriff and Elmhurst.
Balls of fire
Elgin police were sold on the Jaycor PepperBall system by a demonstration earlier this year.
"We went out in the back, fired it and saw that the possibilities we could use it for are endless," Elgin police Lt. Mike Turner said.
The system, manufactured by San Diego-based Jaycor Tactical Systems, uses marble-sized projectiles covered in red plastic.
The ball is filled with Oleoresin Capsicum powder, the chemical name for pepper spray.
The rounds work much like a paintball. They can bruise exposed skin and can even break skin that is close to the bone, leaving welts for a couple of weeks.
When the ball bursts, it releases the pepper in a dust form that irritates the eyes, nose and throat.
This July, Elgin police bought ammunition and 10 projectile launchers each costing $1,000. Most Elgin officers were trained with the weapons in July.
Elgin police have deployed the weapon once, but never fired it.
Roselle police trained with the weapon this year. And the systems have also been purchased by Lake, McHenry and Cook County sheriff's departments and by Northbrook, Lake in the Hills, Fox Lake, Lake Zurich, Bloomingdale, Mundelein and Buffalo Grove police departments.
Bullets of another kind
Less-lethal munitions are designed to disable a suspect rather than kill, Mohn said.
Most beanbag rounds, as well as rubber and foam baton rounds, are shot from a 12-gauge shotgun or a 37-millimeter launcher, which resembles a large-barreled gun.
"Because less-lethals are becoming so popular, there are numerous different types of caliber and delivery mechanisms," Mohn said.
The beanbags come in square and tear drop forms and are designed for different distances and situations.
With these munitions, police are taught to avoid aiming at center mass -- a change from what officers have always been taught to do with deadly force, said Lance Todd, a DuPage County sheriff's deputy.
"These rubber batons hit you with the force of a major league baseball," Todd said. "The big, meaty fleshy areas, where the organs aren't right behind, are where you aim."
Police in Prospect Heights, Wheeling, Mount Prospect, Buffalo Grove and St. Charles are bringing beanbag rounds on board this year.
Tactical teams with the Cook County sheriff's and the Geneva police departments also are getting the rounds.
Vernon Hills, Schaumburg, Elburn and Chicago police are exploring the idea of the beanbags; decisions should be made by early next year.
Des Plaines, Wheaton, Bloomingdale, Hanover Park, Streamwood and Wheeling police have had the beanbags for the past couple of years.
DuPage County deputies have had access to less-lethal munitions in past years, but this year they added a second Sage SL6 37-millimeter system, which shoots beanbags and other types of less-lethal projectiles. The first system was bought last year. Each system cost about $1,200.
Not a magic bullet
Less-lethal options have their critics.
Amnesty International has asked law enforcement agencies to stop using electroshock devices for the past several years.
Shawn Gaylord, the organization's acting Midwest regional director out of Chicago, said more research is needed on the effects of these devices.
"There is the belief that people with heart disease or neurological conditions may be affected differently," Gaylord said.
All less-lethal devices that have passed industry standards have immediate shortcomings, said Capt. Charles "Sid" Heal of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, an expert in the field.
Heal coauthored a 2001 evaluation of less-lethal munitions along with Pennsylvania State University's Applied Research Laboratory. The study pointed out accuracy and reliability issues with the munitions.
At least 12 deaths in North America have been linked to the rounds, which have been proven to injure suspects severely.
Authorities stress these weapons are not a substitute for deadly force and are not a magic bullet.
But they do save lives, Heal said.
Police officers are trained along a force continuum that begins with police presence, progresses to verbal and physical touch, and then ends with deadly force, said Bloomingdale Deputy Police Chief Chuck Mader, a member of the Illinois' Use of Force Committee.
These less-lethal options come in just before deadly force, said Mader, who has trained law enforcement agencies across the United States in less-lethal weapons and police use of force.
"These are not one-person weapons, because if they fail they put the officer in jeopardy," Mader said. "These are two-people weapons. You don't engage one of these weapons without lethal cover."
The perfect less-lethal weapon would be discriminating, reusable, completely safe, 100 percent effective and portable, Heal said.
"There is nothing out there that even approaches that," he said.
What is in the future of less-lethal technology includes ways to use directed energy, such as microwaves.
One device in the works heats human skin up to 130 degrees in two seconds, Heal said.
Another area of promise includes chemical agents such as sleep-inducing gas or rounds that cause a person to smell so bad people won't want to be near him.
"He is the functional equivalent of Typhoid Mary," Heal said. "We may be able to disperse a whole crowd with this guy."
Even with the idea that less-lethal technology has far to go, employing some aspect of that technology is crucial for law enforcement agencies, Heal said.
Departments that don't may face a legal battle down the road.
"They can expect to experience in court someone asking why they neglected to use options that did not require them to use deadly force," Heal said.
Force: Some say non-lethal weapons must be safer still
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Re: Re: hafta plug my own article!!
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