Missouri cops now using 80,000-volt 'stun cuffs on prisoners

[Tx4obama]

Missouri cops now using 80,000-volt ‘stun cuffs’ on prisoners

The Sheriff’s Department in Buchanan County, Missouri has begun using 80,000-volt enhanced handcuffs for prisoner transfers and some court appearances while dismissing potential safety concerns, KQTV-TV reported on Monday.

“It affects the muscles of the body and it doesn’t really affect anything else,” Captain Jody Hovey told KQTV. “Every one says it affects your heart, and it does not. What it does really is it just sends a charge through the body that locks up your muscles.”

Hovey said to KQTV that the “stun cuffs,” as they have been called, are tied around a prisoner’s arm or leg and can be operated via remote control from as far as 100 yards away. His department is currently using only two pairs, valued at $2,200 apiece, citing “bugs and kinks” that need to be corrected before more are ordered.

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ABC Fusion reported in August 2013 that according to Amnesty International, 500 people died in the U.S. after being shocked by Tasers between 2001 and 2012. Tasers typically deploy a charge of 50,000 volts, just over half the reported capacity of the new “stun cuffs.”

Full article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/26/missouri-cops-now-using-80000-volt-stun-cuffs-on-prisoners/

[RedCappedBandit]

1. Wow.

"“It affects the muscles of the body and it doesn’t really affect anything else,” Captain Jody Hovey told KQTV. “Every one says it affects your heart, and it does not."

How fucking stupid can you get.

And these people want us to view them as professionals? They wonder why everybody fucking hates them.

[Hardlyaround]

12. He says it affects the muscles, not the heart.

Here's a news flash for you Sheriff, THE HEART IS A MUSCLE.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Ignorant piggies.

[Nye Bevan]

3. Presumably the shock will only be administered if they try to escape.

And giving them a shock is surely preferable to shooting them.

[mike_c]

10. like tasers, it will certainly be used for "pain compliance" aka torture....

eom

[EvilAL]

4. Are there that many

prisoners in cuffs running away that they have to be able to stun them from 300 feet away? Do the police not have legs to chase a guy in fucking cuffs?

[davidn3600]

5. OK then...

If anyone dies from these, the Captain should be charged with murder.

If it's as safe and non-lethal as he claims....I would think he would gladly agree to this.

[Neoma]

6. Uh, isn't the heart a muscle?

[Hardlyaround]

14. Yes, it is.

This Sheriff is a dangerous fool if he doesn't know that.

[madrchsod]

15. really good way to fry the heart..yes it`s a muscle

[sgtbenobo]

7. You just can't....

.... make this shit up.

http://www.stun-cuff.com/files/1558099/uploaded/Inmate%20Notification.pdf


Carry on....very, very quietly.

[Boomerproud]

8. Isn't the heart a muscle?

[winter is coming]

9. How long until they kill someone? My guess is less than six months, probably less than three. n/t

[NuclearDem]

11. Jesus, just go full bore and put shock collars on all of them.

Because we all know COs and LEOs will use these devices appropriately and with the utmost restraint.

[NickB79]

16. I've heard this discussed for riot control in prisons

A way to stop prison fights and riots before they get out of hand.