Thanks, pkbites. Now onto a related query: are tazers considered to be armament in that state?
pkbites: Did you ask if their officers carry only the tazers while on campus and use other types of firearms when they’re working with other police forces off campus?
what exactly do you mean by “armament”?
If someone were to ask me if they are “armed” the answer is a firm NO!
“Armed” means a firearm. End of story. A tazer is not a firearm. I’ve been in and out of the law enforcement field both full time & part-time during the past 20+ years, and I assist in teaching DAAT. I’m waiting for some smart ass to come in here and tell me university police don’t need to carry guns. You try to effect an arrest with part of the force continuum not there. Someone in Iowa needs to get his head out of his ass.
We had a university president here try to disarm university police officers. He lost.
“Those cops don’t look unarmed.” No, you didn’t say you mistook jack for jack, but you did mistake a tazer for a gun. Apparently your god mistook your skull for a trash can, too.
No. But I did post the phone number. Be my guest.
Bwaaahahahah.
:smack: Those poor folk at at U of I DPS. They’re going to get a bunch of calls now! All because Mr. Babbington can’t slow the fuck down! Hahahahahahaha!
Apparently, Wicket, you’ve mistaken yourself for someone with reading comprehension.
From http://www.iastate.edu/~study-abroad/Faculty/PDH_Handbook/policies/2-7.DOC I get this info (bolding mine):
So, tazers are weapons. I don’t know if you can get away with claiming that you’re going to cook your victim if you knife him instead.
From http://www.dso.iastate.edu/facilityuse.htm {it’s a draft}(bolding mine):
[ul][li]Tazers are defined as weapons.[/li][li]The University Police use tazers.[/li][li]Therefore the University Police are not unarmed.[/ul][/li]
IMHO Alert! I’m with pkbites: they may be armed with tazers and thus armed; however, I think that’s underarmed. If anyone cares, even Wicket, feel free to open a debate on non-lethal armament.
pkbites: I think I shall make that phone call in the morning after my first class is over.
The bit above about cooking the victim after knifing is meant as levity.
Or we could just go to ChalkPit’s April thread on tazers.
Yet another IMHO alert! I can see the police officer preferring to approach a stopped vehicle on a highway from the passenger side (assuming the driver side is the left side of the vehicle) for two reasons:
[ol][li]The officer can see exactly what it is the driver’s reaching for in the glove compartment and thus won’t be surprised with a weapon.[/li]The officer won’t be standing too close to the passing traffic.[/ol]
I am so happy that I could spark such a spirited argument. Thank you all. For the record, it was the Iowa State Police, he was armed with a gun and not a taser. And Monty, I have no doubt in my mind that he came up to the passenger side of my truck for safety reasons. I paid the ticket today, and am glad to be done with it. But the manner in which I was stopped still grates on me.
What’s wrong with the manner? Your only complaint is that you had to wait for the other officer–whom you maligned with a prejudicial comment. The police officer pulled you over for a legitimate purpose and you got a legitimate ticket.