So This is Where We’re At? This? This is Good? This?
Here ya go.
Read that again. This isn’t The Onion. This is MSNBC.
So they’ve turned from GI Joe to Bruce Lee? That’s an improvement?
“The Anderson [California] Police Department is implementing the police nunchaku as a tool to more effectively arrest, control, and subdue non-compliant suspects,” Chief Michael Johnson told NBC News. “The nunchaku can be deployed to more compassionately gain compliance from a suspect through pain application opposed to striking, as customary with the side-handled or straight baton.” (Bolding mine. All mine. All insanely mine!)
Okay, I get the idea that “pain application” is more compassionate than “death application”. I get that. But not by much. I think we might need to check the definition of compassionate to see if it includes nunchucks. Nunchucks are not a yoga pose, you know.
Police! Settle down!
Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.
I know most operators in the Beauty Shop know it and most barbers know it–but don’t let it get out publicly–Trey Gowdy’s barber secretly hates him.
1Nunchakus are more compassionate than batons? Who’s measuring the compassion? Properly used, nunchakus can kill you with one strike. The speed can be very high, much higher than one can get with a baton. Didn’t Bruce Lee teach the cops anything?
2We eagerly await the video of the do-nut brigade exiting their cruisers lassoed in their own nunchucks. This could be comedy gold.
3#1) Only if they were Nerf Nunchucks – otherwise, it’s going to be just (if not more) painful than getting hit with a baton
#2) As a mom of a black belt, I can tell you that you have to be skilled at using them. Are these cops that trained?
4Wow. Nunchucks have been around before. About 1977 or 78. Then about the same time, Monadnock introduced the PR-24, the baton with the additional handle 90 degrees to the “stick”. Nunchucks have a painful learning curve while the PR-24 did not. In the use of force continuum they are considered “soft” because the CAN be used in a less than deadly force way. They can also be used improperly and maim or kill.
5Anderson, California – where the lily white demographic is known to be very generous with sharing the county’s one tooth with each other when applying for social services they don’t want them thar inner city folk to have.
6After watching deputy sheriff open a can a whoop-ass on the poor little Black high school girl in South Carolina. methinks a course in how to win friends and influence people would be better.
7What would make a H-U-G-E difference in police behavior would be drug testing. Steroids, especially. Test the police, not their targets.
8grammy97, thats a great, realistic idea. I would be surprised to discover that this is not routinely done. It would be a great way for local governments to avoid lawsuits.
9Isn’t there some country somewhere where we can live that isn’t big into beating up citizens wandering down the street or sitting on the porch eating ice cream?
10Dear Anderson Police Department,
Non aggression: U R Doing It Rong.
11@grammy97 . . . no truer words were spoke. I had a lady friend who married her high school muscled surfer boyfriend who became a policeman and used to bounce her off the walls. Yeppers, steroids.
12A they all also taking extra testosterone? This inquiring mind would like to know.
13I remember nunchucks from the 80’s fad. Along with butterfly knives they are for people who want flash with little substance. I remember watching others with them, swinging them around and trying to show off, only to hit their heads (big or little) and send themselves to the ground in pain. A better choice would be anything else stick like. Maybe a broom handle. Hurts like heck, but breaks before it can apply a deadly hit. Cheaper too.
14What’s next? Throwing stars, flying guillotines, running along the tops of bamboo?
Nuts. No, wait. This is beyond nuts. This is Chuck Norris wannabe whacked out wingnuts pitiful.
15Numchuck is a derogatory term for mindless moron.
16I rest my case.
So the department is willing to spend money on training their thugs on the proper use of nunchucks but they won’t spend money on training them to de-escalate situations or spend money on hiring people who aren’t cowards and bullies. Of course that is assuming they’ll get some training…but I can’t wait for the videos showing the cops either beating themselves over the head with them or choking their victims with them if not beating them to death because somehow the cop was afraid for their life.
17I thought nunchucks were what happened when women ate spoiled meat.
18The discontinuity of it all: Police, under fire across the spectrum for routine excessive force on unarmed civilians with riot batons, pepper spray, tasers, and firearms, now adds and unpredictable weapon that can kill in untrained hands, and gives them to untrained psychos.
That’s a recipe for mass murder.
19@Charles
20Don’t forget, there is no such thing as mass murder. Only mentally ill people who need the government to take away the little healthcare they have.
Nunchucks don’t kill people…
Well,
I wonder how long it takes them to realize that it’d be a helluva lot cheaper to use common curtesy and restraint.
The thing we are experiencing that is “new” is getting to see what goes on all the time. And, sadly, some police never need to be violent (I suspect not losing pay to litigation helps), so it isn’t really a police problem.
21Forget the nunchucks … bring in a load of willow switches!! Ever have to go cut your own willow switch so your Momma could use it on your bare legs? Hurts like a sumofabitch and you end up dancing around trying to get away from the switch like a flea on a hot skillet and promising NEVER to do what you did again! :o)
22Shasta County is in the heart of Calitucky, a magical place where the stores carry organic chawin’ terbacky.
23In traditional Okinawan karate, the nunchaku, sai, and tonfa (the PR-94 is modeled after this item) are traditional farming implements that were adapted for martial arts use against swordsmen (as a self defense mechanism). These weapons were only taught to student upon advancing to black belt status as they required a degree of physical coordination, conditioning, and self discipline that were/are above average. They require years of practice to achieve precision without self-inflicted damage.
Handing these over to someone without the appropriate level of training and maturity is like handing a gun over to an untrained individual….oh wait……
24Only in the wintertime,Marcia in CO. The rest of the year folks would use a wide leather belt to try to pry some hide off.
25when my son was in kindergarten, he was taking a martial arts course. they offered a 2 class course on nunchuks. the soft ones, so we allowed our son to go. and while he was using them CORRECTLY, he managed to smack the lights out of the teacher. (granted, the teacher leaned in to him from behind and the beastlyboy did not know he was there…)
the baton with the 90 degree handle works VERY well. it’s got a shorter learning curve, and it’s less likely to be taken away from you, like nunchuks can be, quite easily.
26I still have my set from (wayyyyy) back in the day, but haven’t used them in years. it takes a lot of practice to use them without injuring yourself in the process, which I’m doubting these cops are doing. just handing them out, with no training/practice, is a license for these numbnuts to hurt themselves. should be entertaining, if nothing else.
27Sweet Jesus, do these guys ever have ANY ideas that don’t originate in a B movie? Can’t wait for the samurai sword sidearms.
What could possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways….
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