This has nothing to do with self esteem or torture, using force including violent and painfull steps is a part of legal procedure how to make uncooperative fucks listen to the orders. I'm really curious why every single scene in Vuk's propaganda starts with imprisoned person being tased, instead of showing us what happened before tasing. That happens when you're isolated in your informational bubble though, you'll get one-sided view.
edit: ninja'd! As I wrote, you (and I) don't have slightest idea how these persons were behaving before being tased.
For starters, because you do not know why exactly people act the way they do.
Let us exclude cases, where people did nothing and the cop was just on a powertrip, as I hope that we can both at least agree that tasering people just for fun, should be out of the question for a cop.
The underlying issue is, that you never can tell why people act the way they do. You could very well have someone who's actually sick, has issues to controll his temper, who's drunk or for what ever reason simply can't controll his emotions for that moment. I mean that people sometimes loose controll isn't unheard of.
So, let us say we have someone who's resisting his arrest? Sure, he will be tasered eventually and that is acceptable, to prevent damage or harm. But once he's restrained and secured? What's the point of CONTINUING to taser a target that's on the ground, restrained and not showing signs of agression?
Besides, there are a multitude or different ways to deal with such situations. See, a friend of mine once was so much in rage they had to get like 3 or 4 cops to calm him down, he simply snaped and went crazy, not unlike what you can see with someone who's experiencing an epileptic seizure. What have they done? They called an ambulance and used drugs to calm him down. Done. No tasering. No torture. No one was harmed.
And yeah. I am living in a bubble. I was just once hospitalized in a mental instution for a couple of weeks. I was there for depressions and sleeping issues with risk of suicide, like most of the other patients sharing the place, so we had a lot of freedom, we could leave the place, buying food etc. We just had to stay there for the night. However, other stations had the really serious subjects, people that would harm themself, and others soemtimes, people with severe psychosis who had to be restrained and secured, because they screamed, kicked and showed all kinds of agression. Not a pretty sight, I can tell you that much.
Never did I saw anyone repeateldy using a taser there though. They didn't even had tasers there to begin with, since there are better and more effective ways to calm down people. And the police, could actually make use of them. By for caling doctors for example.
If you think that the correct way to deal with all people, is to taser them, then the problem are not the criminals. There are ways to deal with the situations, you just have to know about them, and to be trained in the effective use.
But again, yes I am living in a fucking bubble
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