\u00bb Why do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray?<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen pepper spray became a mainstream law enforcement tool in the 1990s, it was hailed as a relatively peaceful alternative to harsh physical\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
… then apparently you use tools more. That seems to be the case with non-lethal weapons in police arsenals. When the only escalation point is either up-close-and-personal baton beatings, or using a gun, most cops tend to look for alternatives, like, well, talking. But when there's a "non-lethal" alternative — tasers, pepper spray (or even … Continue reading “When you have tools other than a hammer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135052,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/guns-escalation-dangers-quickly-available-lethal-force.html","url_meta":{"origin":24000,"position":0},"title":"Guns and escalation and the dangers of quickly available lethal force","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-17 8:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"One major problem with guns is that they allow for very fast, very easy, potentially lethal escalation of a situation. 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