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Well, in Egypt, the rioters looted the headquarters of the Egyptian secret
police
in April 2011, and when they were looting the building, they found lots of papers.
And if it costs even a dime to
police
a user, that will crush a service with a hundred million users.
That is why we train
police
officers, we train judges, we train public prosecutors around the world.
Now, there's a bunch of reasons why we send military personnel, rather than police, to do these jobs.
If Australia had to send 1,000 people tomorrow to West Papua, for example, we don't have 1,000
police
officers hanging around that could go tomorrow, and we do have 1,000 soldiers that could go.
But they aren't trained the same way
police
officers are, and they're certainly not equipped the way
police
officers are, so this has raised a bunch of problems for them when dealing with these issues.
One particular thing that's come up that I am especially interested in, is the question of whether, when we're sending military personnel to do these sorts of jobs, we ought to be equipping them differently; and in particular, whether we ought to be giving them access to some of the nonlethal weapons that
police
have.
But as I said, the military and the
police
are very different.
So their attitudes to the use of lethal force are very different, and I think it's fairly obvious that their attitude to the use of nonlethal weapons would also be very different from what it is with the
police.
And since we've already had so many problems with
police
use of nonlethal weapons in various ways, I thought it would be a good idea to look at some of those things and relate it to the military context.
They generally seemed to think, "Why would we care what's happened with the
police?
So I started to investigate some of those issues, and have a look at the way
police
use nonlethal weapons when they're introduced, and some of the problems that might arise out of those sorts of things when they actually do introduce them.
They were saying, "This is explicitly intended to give
police
an option between shouting and shooting.
So I looked at all of the
police
shooting figures.
You can see, in the fine print at the top:
"Police
shooting deaths" means not just people shot by police, but people who have shot themselves in the presence of
police.
But these are the figures across the entire country, and the red arrow represents the point where Queensland said, "Yes, this is where we're going to give all
police
officers across the entire state access to OC spray."
So it wasn't that Queensland had a particular problem with deaths from
police
shootings and so on.
Anyone want to take a stab at the number of times, given how they've introduced this, the number of times
police
in Queensland used OC spray in that period?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if Queensland
police
didn't have OC spray, they wouldn't have shot 2,226 people in those two years.
And the Russian military
police
special forces, "Spetsnaz," came in and stormed the theater.
So when they had a look at it afterward, there were only a couple of people who'd apparently been shot, by the hostage takers or by the
police
forces trying to deal with the situation.
They're used out in the real world, like in Texas, like this:
["Police
Taser Great-Grandmother During Traffic Stop"] I confess, this particular case was one that piqued my interest in this.
News reports started coming up about this situation, where this woman was arguing with a
police
officer.
And it's all captured by the video camera running in the front of the
police
car.
What else was I suppose to do?" (Laughter) Or Florida:
"Police
Taser 6-year-old Boy at Elementary School."
Same
police
district.
Because
police
are actually more restrained in the use of force than the military are.
So if you have these problems with
police
officers with nonlethal weapons, what on earth would make you think it's going to be better with military personnel?
The last thing that I would like to say: When I'm talking to the
police
about what a perfect nonlethal weapon would look like, they almost inevitably say the same thing.
So it really makes you realize the onus on parents to have to look at this and regulate this and
police
this in their own lives and how astonishing that is.
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