Police brutality

[Tribble]

I Know how strongly you feel and do know where you are coming from. I don't believe that all rural stations are as bad as the ones I have dealt with - or that most of the police are corrupt. The saying goes - a few bad eggs. Once those have been eradicated = then things will improve.

I had the "pleasure" of digitizing all the footage that is available at the Robben Island Museum. I saw some footage that still gives me nightmares. Atrocities that you could never imagine. So I do not believe that all this is the result of affirmative action. Unfortunately - it is human nature.

I agree that corrupt politicians and leaders should be a thing of the past. We need leaders we can look up to and be proud of.

[jee]

Now, I actually wanted to have an opinion on the use of tasers....I don't think they are used in SA?

[lancelot]

I would not say that, they may be used in certain areas, I would look at the Chubb, ADT's of this world and maybe Special forces Riot Squads but I sincerely doubt it. The local Police do not use them, they are very expensive, a couple of thousand, it works by shooting a projectile that is attached to two wires and really give one a potent shock, the person will drop like a stone.. However stun guns are used by all and sundry, this is the small apparatus, hand held that delivers like 80000 V or more and has to be pressed onto the body. The person collapses for a bit, craps themselves, literally but is then OK. One can buy these all over the place, even Boys Toys. Cost about R500.
Stun guns are often confused with Tazers.

[Koko_Lion]

Personally I prefer stun guns because most of the time just the sound of that device is quite frighting, specially the really big ones. As far as I know you can't do that with tazers. I once zapped myself while trying to get my stun gun out my pocket and my thumb pushed the button, was pretty embarrassing

[doo_much]

Stun gun / tazer - no experience with either and I'd like to keep it that way!

[Hex_Rated]

I'm generally a law abiding citizen but I have been in serious trouble a couple of times. I have been smacked (back handed, strangled, kicked) by the cops when I was younger - but I probably deserved it that time (tried to run away lol) and they let me off afterwards. They were actually quite nice guys, used to greet them when I saw them after that.

[hamin_aus]

I'm generally a law abiding citizen but I have been in serious trouble a couple of times. I have been smacked (back handed, strangled, kicked) by the cops when I was younger

You probably suck at talking your way out of trouble..

A friend and I once drove through a police barricade, smashing over the chain link fence they had put up - we were pissed drunk, of course. Then we tried to flee the scene.
They caught us a few hundred meters down the road, but after some smooth talking we got let off without any of them laying a finger on us.

Here is a dramatization of the events:

[Hex_Rated]

HAHAHAHA! Nice cartoon.

I learned not to run away, I've also got off a lot by talking my way out of it - been bust for possession of MJ by the cheese (remember when they drove the yellow cars) about 4 times in my youth. I'm an experienced police whisperer by now.

The only time I ever got sent to the clink was when my friend harvested his crop (5 bankies of hydro) and was driving to do a delivery and I was in the car (it wasn't mine that time - I didn't even smoke anymore)... R10k in lawyers fees later they dropped the charges. Sorry if too much detail, BTW I don't condone illegal activities.

unless I'm the one committing them

[Tribble]

Methinks you had a misspent youth and gave/still give your folks grey hair.

[doo_much]

the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) responded to DA questions by admitting that every one of them was currently investigating reports of torture by members of the SAPS

Tabasco