One thing that’s clear after this week’s various Occupy protests. The more “non-lethal” tools you give a police department, the greater the chance the cops will misuse them.
Coincidentally, this point was also affirmed by last week’s “60 Minutes'” segment on how Tasers are being misused.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins