Letters to the Editor
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Compliance Prevention
If you read police training manuals, they don't limit semi-lethal weapons to situations where the officers are in danger. If the officers are in danger, they are to use firearms; if the officers are merely being disobeyed or disrespected, they are to use 'pain compliance.'
If using tasers or pepper spray, pain compliance begins with sudden, incapacitating pain, and escalates until the victim complies, or the charge runs out (with tasers), or the cannister runs out (with pepper spray).
I was once pepper sprayed (without warning). This induces blindness and seizures, so that if the cops had issued any orders, I would not have been able to comply. They unloaded at least two cannisters into my eyes and mouth, and given the photos of the incident, kept beating me with large clubs at the same time. I have often seen other people pepper sprayed, and they usually fall, writhing, to the ground, where the police continue gassing them. I have never seen anyone who was still able to comply with police orders, whether or not the police issued any orders.
I have not seen or suffered taser-pain-compliance, so I cannot say whether it causes similar effects.