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Lights, Cameras, Taser

By Debbie Williams Reporter
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Orange Beach Police have a new tool to fight crime and keep them safe. Lights, Cameras, Taser
Published: Thu, October 11, 2007 - 5:07 pm Last Updated: Thu, October 11, 2007 - 6:18 pm
Debbie Williams
Debbie Williams
You've heard of dash cams on police cars, what about cameras on taser guns. It's the latest addition to one of the most popular weapons used by police departments across the country and Orange Beach Police have it.
The sound of a taser. Police love it, bad guys hate it.
Taser are a non-lethal way of controlling a suspect according to Police Sgt. Jay Dempsey, but they have always been controversial. "The front page of the paper 'Died After Tasing' or 'Died from Tasing' when in actuality you read the coroners report and tazing didn't have anything to do with his death."
Now a new type of taser is hitting the streets but this time it has a camera that will let you see what the officer sees.
The Orange Beach Police Department has actually had tasers since 2005 but this new device will answer any question of how it was used. "It records in black and white. It gives audio and video, there's no way to erase the video so there is no tampering of the officer to have any allegations the officer tampered with the video," says Sgt. Dempsey.
It's an addition that is welcomed for a device that maybe as controversial as it is popular.
Taser cams will hit the streets in Orange Beach after officers have completed training with the new equipment. An additional 20 tasers are expected to be added next year.


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Good will always overcome evil. However, good might have a taser, or a trained dog. If tired, good might just use a 9mm.

Support your local police and NRA. It is not about seatbelts and tags, meth and crack are out of control. Give the police the power to fight crime without being hand cuffed.

Sturgil Flockin
NOT MOBILE, AL
BY POWER OF MY VOTE

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You are right. If half of these criminals had gotten the proper training at home to begin with, then we wouldn’t have all these problems. People come up with some of the most stupid things to sue and blame the police for(see the forum on police abusing their jobs-yeah right). It seems like police are darned if they do and darned if they don’t. So any technology that will aid them in their jobs and shut up ambulance chasers is great.

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The poilce have a hard enough job now we add in fear of being sued or fired for doing the right thing. Who has more rights? The law or the crack head running down the street with your TV?

Here is another example - I man robs a gas station with a 9mm, he runs out of the door and trips in a pot hole in the parking lot. The store gets sued and he wins. He goes to jail, but he won enough money to smoke crack for 1 yr… free.

We let the president of Iran speak on our soil at Columbia University. Nobody pushes the issue. Someone hangs a noose on a teachers door at the same school and everyone is up in arms. What is going on in our country, we have become the UNITED STATES OF THE OFFENDED. Support the troops, the cops and put God back in our life. Oh yeah, use the taser on the bad guys, somewhere along the line the needed their rear end spanked and the parent or the school did not do it… now look.

The ten hundred block is full of people that needed their rear end spanked in school and at home while growing up. We made our bed, now we must lie in it.

God Bless America, Troops and the Police.

Sturgil

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Good for you Sturgill-I hope you are a law enforcement officer if you are stunning. I’m married to a police officer and I know this is a necessary part of the job. Maybe if people can see what you guys(and ladies) do, they will quit berating law enforcement. Please-dying from being tazed-more likely died from that crack or meth overdose that made them fight or run in the first place. I wish everyone who questions what law enforcement officers do and why, could walk in their shoes for just 1 day before popping off their ignorant opinions.

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If you run....I will stun, then post the video on youtube!

Sturgil

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