Police Academy Taser & Pepper Spray

that pop sound of a Taser being fired and the inevitable cries of pain that followed from the recruits of the Frederick Police Department's Academy marks their eighth week of training it was just prior to Thanksgiving and the recruits of Academy Class 59 underwent certification for both using a Taser and pepper spray which included not just testing but also being exposed to both one by one they stepped forward to take their turn on the mat held by two peers who would guide their ceasing bodies to the floor as they've received five seconds of electricity delivered by two probes shot into their back or leg so what we try to do during the training is we try to give them different types of situations and probe placement hits and to see how effective or ineffective they are we do this before the actual classroom portion because what we don't want to have happen is the students get our be distracted during the classroom portion worried about the actual exposure part of the of the day so we get taken to the exposures out of the way and then we're gonna sit down and then we're going to talk about it we're going to talk about our General Orders and the law and and what's expected and required of them when they use this weapon system officer Santangelo says new case law elevated the Taser to a higher level of force than it had been in previous years so right now the level of force is considered somewhere between impact and deadly force when we talk about that so what we teach is we limit the use of the Taser to those subjects who are an active threat to the officer okay so we're not going to use it on passive resistance if somebody's just trying to run away to get to get away from us we're not going to use the Taser on them what they're looking for Santangelo says is neuromuscular incapacitation that is when the subjects muscles lock up and they can't continue to fight the further apart the probes are when they hit the more muscles are affected the goal was not pain in and of itself the goal was that Nora muscular incapacitation the day after recruits got their turn experiencing the debilitating pain of a Taser all five seconds of it lined up outside experience a less crippling but longer-lasting type of pain recruits in the FP D Academy regardless of which law-enforcement agency they will ultimately work for must also undergo direct exposure to a type of pepper spray called oleoresin capsicum otherwise known as OC spraying after officer dan sullivan carefully sprays the agent across both eyes of a recruit and then forces them to open their eyes to be sure that they get the full effect they are sent through an obstacle course while the OC spray takes full effect their first stop requires them to deploy their own pepper spray and spray a dummy across the effigies eyes the next two stops had them performing knee kicks and elbow punches into the pads held by fellow recruits then after repeatedly hitting another pad with a baton they had to weave their way through a set of cones their final challenge was to force their eyes open so they could identify whether an instructor was wielding a fake gun or knife and then order him to drop it only after they successfully completed the course were they allowed to flush their eyes out with water from a carbon hose so the reason we OC expose our students to this and any other person who's certified to carry OC is one it reduces the usage of OC spray it allows them to fight through it if they are exposed to OC spray this allows them to understand what the suspects going to experience and allows them to experience the agent so that they know they can fight through the agent if they're exposed to it and continue to do their job it's absolutely miserable you get involuntary closure of the eyes which is called blazars spasms the Oleum capsicum is a regular pepper that's ground down into a fine powder that powder / crystal gets in your eyes and it cuts off your your lacrimal gland or what I call your cry gland which is where your tear ducts are it dries out your eyes so it causes that instantaneous blaze of spasms or the involuntary blinking of the eyes so vision goes away immediately the third effects caused by OC spray is to irritate the lungs which while not affecting the amount of oxygen one can take in it can have the effect of inducing panic it's unpleasant all the way around officers don't want to spray somebody because they don't want to be exposed to it and the other thing is like I don't necessarily want to do that to somebody unless I absolutely have to because they know how miserable it is on this day Peter McAdams a recruit for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office was exposed to OC for the third time he said it does not get easier with repeated exposure it sucks no matter what it feels like my face is on fire it is one of the worst feelings I've ever had taser I'd say it's actually a lot more painful but the OC really like incapacitates you a long time because I'm still you know it's been probably a half hour and I'm still struggling to keep my eyes open it's just it makes everything really hard to do whole face is burning whereas with the Taser it's five seconds that really stink but as soon as it's over it's over any day I'll take a taser o'brosey

Channel: FrederickNewsPost

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Keywords: taser, pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum, Frederick, Police, Academy

Id: spkzY8QhHw0

Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 28 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/actually_Dave]

The face on the guy with the taser. You can tell he fucking lives for this shit.

[u/[deleted]]

I think I'll stick with the rubber chicken training, thanks.

[u/ce2c61254d48d38617e4]

That guy at 1:15 is enjoying it just a little too much.

[u/Funnyguy17]

I got tased in the rib cage and OC sprayed a little after that for training in the military. After getting OC sprayed directly in the eyes(our captain thought it was funny) We had to run an obstacle course but 10 seconds in our eyes were shut so we had to use one hand you peel back one of our eyelids and then do sprints, taking down someone, hitting two people with a baton as they try to flank you, disarm someone and handcuff them, exercises etc. If you quit you had to wait for the pain to go away and then then try again. All while it was a record 116 outside. We damn near died, but we did it. Overall I would rather get tased 10 times than get OC sprayed again. Oh and a fun side note we used oil base spray so it reactivated in the shower, and water drains down... lots of yelling in that shower room that day.

[u/[deleted]]

Before this thread devolves into arguments about why we issue officers firearms when there are such apparently effective non-lethal measures, its important to understand the spectrum of force.

In the spectrum of force there are increasing levels of responses to the actions of a subject. We expect officers to try verbal commands if there is no heightened level of resistance and we expect officers to use deadly force when their life (or that of an innocent) are in reasonable danger of serious bodily harm or death.

A taser and OC spray are both considered appropriate responses for a physically resistant subject. It should be noted this is a higher level of resistance than a physically non-complaint subject. Where non-compliance is simply not allowing the cuffs to be on, a resistant subject is one who actively fights back, such as shoving the officer or trying to grapple with him or her.

On the highest end of the force spectrum, we have subjects who are actively assaulting the officer and are attempting to cause bodily harm to them. In these cases, using a baton is acceptable but, even then, there are body parts that are considered off-limits for all but the most dangerous situations because a baton could be used to deliver lethal strikes such as sufficiently hard strike to the sternum or spine. In this most severe spectrum of force, the situation will determine whether to even attempt to use a baton or if to draw a service weapon. If the assailant is much larger or has a weapon, it is reasonable for an officer not to attempt to use lesser responses in the interest of basic self-defense. We also have to consider that not everyone will be effectively incapacitated by non-lethal measures, especially if they are under the influence of drugs.

That said, I've been both pepper sprayed and tasered before. Out of the two I would prefer the latter any day. I will also say that I've seen guys pepper sprayed and actually successfully push through the pain.

[u/Jonhollar]

This reminds me of Dwight Shrutes Knights of the Knight

[u/Predicted_Text]

One time in jail, they pepper sprayed somebody in the next pod over, and that shit went up through the vent and into our pod and affected everybody

[u/oranurpianist]

Oh wow, how professional and official it all looks like... thank god tasers and pepper sprays will never fall into the hands of messed up psycho bullies, racists, sadists or crooked cops /s