Is the Non-lethal weapon/tool segment of the market underutilized/underdeveloped?

[MadSquabbles500]

Is the non-lethal weapon/tools segment of the market underutilized and underdeveloped?

You see all these cases of police brutality, fatal shootings, accidental discharges, so I just wondering are police not carrying enough non-lethal options. Like had Officer Liang had his hand on a taser or mace bottle, and then got startled, Akai Gurley will not have suffered a fatal wound but instead a burning face, or neuromuscular incapacitation. Why is his standard procedure to get his lethal weapon at the ready?

Is there a high powered tranquilizer dart gun that has range and precision? In the St Louis Mike Brown incident, if the cop instead of shooting him dead, had a dart gun, he could have just put him down sleeping. In the job of policing, you think cops need and will like more tools in between verbal sparring, and deadly force.

What other kinds of non lethal weapons and tools are there? Are civilians allowed to have them? Is there not a lot of investment and money being pumped into this segment?

 

[ironwolf]

Sure there's high powered fairly accurate tranquilizer guns, that's how biologist get dangerous animals like Jaguars, wolves, mountain lions and stuff like to tag them.

Probably could have worked on mike brown but that means every officer would need one, you couldn't just let people rampage while waiting for the guy with the tranquilizer to get there.

Also they don't act all that fast, I've see mountain lions shot with ketamine tranquilizer a and that takes a few minutes before they fall out of the tree, if a person was being crazy and was a danger to himself or others and you shot him with a tranquilizer, he could still cause some real damage and injuries....shit he could fall into traffic or off a building or continue stabbing and beating people until the drugs just kicked in.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't mike brown sort of fat??? That would affect the speed of the drugs and delivery too??? I know a little about this because I was part of a Mexican grey wolf mapping project at one point and we would fairly routinely tranquilizer animals to but gps collars on them, we usually know the average size and weight of an animal, with people there's more variation in size and composition it seems than wild animals which just don't carry fat.

 

[Gregolian]

I've heard stories straight from jail deputies saying guys when they are extremely high on certain drugs like meth or PCP that gets snuck in they'll just walk through a taser and that though it hurt like hell pepperspray you still have all your strength.

Also, when in the street scenarios... how sure can a police officer be that the perp they are after doesn't have a lethal weapon?

I had always been of the understanding and have been told this by friends of mine that are LEOs they are trained to grab the gun first because they have to always assume the worst, be prepared for the worst, but hope the worst doesn't occur.