How To Use Police Weapons Essay

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Police Weaponry The police can use a variety of weapons to take down a suspect. The fact that they have so many non-lethal weapons, makes me wonder why they don’t use them. According to, Okayplayer.com, Barack Obama banned the use of military grade weapons from the police force in the United States. If he would not have did this, police brutality would be far worse than what it is today. The most used weapon by police officers is the Glock 19. They have used this as the primary weapon, when a they have a lot of other weapons that could be used. There are many different types of non-lethal weapons that are legal for the police to use. Weapons like The XREP. This is another form of a taser, but this is a long-range weapon. According to The Marshall Project, it is a wireless version of the taser, and it fires plastic shells that each contain sharpened electrodes, a battery, a transmitter, and a microprocessor. When a …show more content…

That is why his name is the Green Arrow. Nevertheless, the police force are banned from using all sorts of weapons. Some weapons are not banned, but when you think about it, they should because no one in their right mind would use them. Some weapons like, throwing knives, kunai, bow and arrow, or even a sword. They don't need to ban these weapons because it's common sense that you can't use these weapons.
The police use any kind of handgun from a glock to a smith in Wesson. They also use nightsticks to best in a suspect when they are not cooperating with the police. The police also use a taser to stun their suspects when they are trying to flee or like some racist cops, they like to shoot a person in the back, killing them in cold blood. Another weapon that is not really considered a weapon, more like an asset, would be a dog. Dogs are used to sniff out drugs or too find missing people in the woods or something of that

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