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	Name:	Jim120 -
	Subject:	Boating accident account
	Date:	9/1/2008 11:57:31 AM

Well, I guess that's THE issue in some folks' minds: either you want the police to disappear or you accept everything a "policeman" does with 100% enthusiasm. But it;s not the way I think.

I happen to know this young man. Not closely, but I do know him -- my kid played baseball with him and I know him and I know his folks. His uncle was a circuit judge in Montgomery County for years. He's not some roughneck or hoodlum or troublemaker. In other words, he's not The Other -- he's pretty much what you'd want your kid to be, as is pretty obvious from reading the account of the post-accident rescue. Reading his account and trying to interpret it in as balanced and fair a way as I can to all involved, it makes me wonder if perhaps the word is getting around that anyone in a law-enforcement situation who behaves in a way that annoys or frustrates the officer in charge or questions his judgment is a good candidate for being popped with a Taser, solely on the supposition that it will instantly resolve the situation and *probably* won't seriously or permanently hurt anyone. And afterwards, how and whether the officer removes the "darts" depends on whether you think the Taser subject "deserves" to suffer the barbs a little longer or not.

I think we have a right to inquire, even if we support law enforcement which almost everyone does, if we support that kind of thinking or behavior in law enforcement personnel. I think we have a right to ask if this was appropriate use of this device wiithout someone coming along and suggesting "Well, obviously you want to completely eliminate or disarm the police; you must be pro-criminal."

No, I don't want to be a cop. I don't want to be a doctor, a plumber, a phone company lineman, a crab fisherman, or a department store salesman either. Whether this was appropriate law enforcement behavior or not has nothing to do with how I want to earn a living.