Non-Lethal Weapons In Riots

Police do use lethal weapons against threats, but what do they use when a riot breaks out, they use non-lethal weapons, does it help the problem in hand, does it reduce the crime with riots, or does it stop the riot that is spreading. The background on police using non-lethal weapons is not so great for example the protest in Waco, Texas compound when the FBI using gas to get the people in there out. Turned into everybody in there died including all of the children, nobody came out alive except two people. (content.time.com) What kind of non-lethal weapons do police use, they use Tear Gas, Flashbangs, Military-Grade Sound Cannons, Rubber Bullets, Tasers, and Riot Shields, here are some facts about the Taser gun over 9,500 agencies use the Taser

gun as their choice of non-lethal weapons, The Taser M26 was developed in 1998 at achieving more efficient incapacitation, The basic firearm consist of a handgun that fires electrodes out to a distance of 35 feet (10 meters), the Taser gun delivers a 18-26 watt electrical signals, generating massive muscle contractions to make him or her to fall on the floor, The name Taser is an acronym of “Tomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.”, “the Taser gun can generate more stopping power than being hit with a .357 magnum bullet.”, For modern police forces, the increasing threat of ligation arising from the use of firearms has led to the adoption of the “less-lethal weapons” including the Taser gun. (Huffington.com) (Metcalf, Johnathan)
Here are some facts about the riot shield also it is an impressive polymer shield used for riot police, they drive a truck over it, then have some hooligans go to town with an assortment of common weapons, they shoot a 3mm shotgun shell at it with a riot police officer standing behind it and then they shoot at it with a 3mm shotgun and sees how it holds up, it held up quite nicely, we do not know how it holds up with a normal size shotgun shell, we believe that it would hold up, but we would have to test it with no body behind it first, because if someone was behind it and it did not hold up, that would be very bad, we do not know about other guns yet but people say depending on the thickness of the riot shield it could hold up to a 44 magnum bullet but we do not know for sure, we say that you will still need body armor even though you have a riot shield with you, because if it breaks you could be seriously injured or you could even die, but if you have the body armor on it increases your chances by a lot.

Does it help the problem in hand? If it does how does this help? It may scare the rioter and when they get scared they will back away from the police. (content.time.com) At what point do the officers need to use these non-lethal weapons? Well they use them if they see an act of violence that they can’t stop by resolving the situation, or they fill threatened.

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Does this reduce the crime? How many people get hurt if this does not work? Many people will and could get severely hurt, if this does not go as planned even some can die. (nationalpost.com) When you do use the non-lethal weapon, does it help this problem? Sometimes it does sometime people do not care whether or not they get hurt they are just trying to get the point across whether the police like it or not. Sometimes this means it can get very ugly. (nationalpost.com)
Does a non-lethal weapons stop the riot? Well it sometimes scares people in the riot and they fall back but sometimes people act so crazy they push through the pain and it makes them a lot more angry and they start to hurt people. How does non-lethal weapons help? It helps push the people back so they do not get closer to the neighbor hoods and start committing more, and more crimes or even worse kill somebody. (content.time.com)
The concluding questions of all this is, what is the outcome of the usage of the non-lethal weapons? Things can get out of hand sometimes, but it can help the situation at other times so basically it works sometimes and sometimes it does not work. It is basically a fifty, fifty chance that nobody will get hurt. But it is no guarantee. What is the outcome of the riot? From there you will never know the outcome of the riot it could be good or bad, some people could get or maybe nobody will get hurt, you will never know unless you are there at the riot until the end but the ending of the riot is unpredictable. (nationalpost.com)