Next-Gen Law Enforcement Handcuffs - can administer shocks,drugs etc

[menotu]

by Chris Matyszczyk - December 8, 2012 - cnet

Futuristic handcuffs would administer shocks, drugs

A patent for next-generation handcuffs offers a future in which the detained can be zapped directly from their restraints, and even injected with a medication, sedative, irritant, paralytic, or other fine substance.

For a long time, it seems that handcuffs have been stuck in the movies of old. They restrain you, but, odd for our interactive world, that's all they seem to do.

Might I tempt you toward futuristic handcuffs that will offer you a small involuntary judder?

I am grateful to Gizmodo for discovering that Patent Bolt has lucked upon a patent that offers bound(less) excitement.

For these are handcuffs that offer surprises. Indeed, they might make the idea of being tased, bro, not quite so bad

The patent is called "Apparatus and System For Augmented Detainee Restraint."

The augmentations it offers are truly quite something. You see, these handcuffs are "configured to administer electrical shocks when certain predetermined conditions occur."

These shocks might be "activated by internal control systems or by external controllers that transmit activation signals to the restraining device."

This progressive tool is the brainchild of Scottsdale Inventions.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57558038-71/futuristic-handcuffs-would-administer-shocks-drugs/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

To see in detail what they can do use following link

http://www.patentbolt.com/2012/11/shocking-next-gen-law-enforcement-handcuff-system-revealed.html

[Just17]

I read about that a few months (?) ago ...... I guess there should be no surprise as that is the way things are headed ....

[NoIBnds]

Wonder if the shock will go through the fur lining.   

[kjpetrie]

So these are a torture device as well as a restraint. A patent contrary to International Law. Now that raises interesting possibilities.

[NoIBnds]

So these are a torture device as well as a restraint. A patent contrary to International Law. Now that raises interesting possibilities.

Not torture, it is to get them to stop acting unruly with a MILD deterrent. Better then fighting with them. Also I have been tasered (voluntarily), and it is not that bad, better then getting hit with a billy club, punched or shot. If they didn't commit crimes or act unruly, would be no need for them.

[kjpetrie]

Are you seriously suggesting most countries wouldn't use them for torture?

[weirdwolf]

Are you seriously suggesting most countries wouldn't use them for torture?

I'm afraid most countries that would use them in that manner most likely wouldn't bother with something that "mundane".

[YouCanToo]

So these are a torture device as well as a restraint. A patent contrary to International Law. Now that raises interesting possibilities.

Not torture, it is to get them to stop acting unruly with a MILD deterrent. Better then fighting with them. Also I have been tasered (voluntarily), and it is not that bad, better then getting hit with a billy club, punched or shot. If they didn't commit crimes or act unruly, would be no need for them.

What happens when whoever is wearing these are taking a medicine and this injects them with whatever they are using and that said person has a reaction between the medicine and this injection, or what ever they want to call it, and dies because of it

And I have yet meant anyone that has been tasered and said it "wasn't that bad".

[YouCanToo]

Are you seriously suggesting most countries wouldn't use them for torture?

If they do indeed use these anywhere, you can be sure that they will eventually wind up being used for other purposes.

[GOTHBITES]

So these are a torture device as well as a restraint. A patent contrary to International Law. Now that raises interesting possibilities.

Not torture, it is to get them to stop acting unruly with a MILD deterrent. Better then fighting with them. Also I have been tasered (voluntarily), and it is not that bad, better then getting hit with a billy club, punched or shot. If they didn't commit crimes or act unruly, would be no need for them.

And who will be the one to judge of unruliness. Maybe the same Officers we see from all those "Cops gone insane" videos on Youtube 

Police Brutality

[Just17]

Crikey!

If cops behaved like that here they would not last very long.

[Wildman]

Crikey!

If cops behaved like that here they would not last very long.

There was a time that would have applied here as well, but in todays world, we just bow and say yasssssssssssssiiiiirrr! 

[NoIBnds]

In EACH of those video clips, they show the end, not the whole confrontation. Also clips can be edited. Remember this, each time it is the citizen that sets the level of confrontation. Otherwise everyone would then have to worry about the police going off like that, yet everyday, 24/7/365 the police have 100's of interactions with citizens and 99.9% do not end like that. When people get all crazy or commit crimes, most citizens do not get involved, they call the police, because it is not easy to confront someone. It is very easy to sit and judge. If you feel that way, the next time the poop hits the fan see if you can handle it without the police, I will bet the police get called. They are out there everyday putting their lives on the line for people they do not know, and in most situations, the police get hurt more often then the citizen. Go look at some police videos that show the entire confrontation. If the officer acts in a criminal manner, the department and the officer get sued, and the officer gets charged (by other police). 
   NO police department in the US would inject drugs into citizens. Maybe it could be used for unruly prisoners at a hospital, for doctors to use to administer drugs, so that they would not have to have the handcuffs taken off and endanger the hospital staff.
  I have volunteered to be tazered and it wasn't that bad. When the power stops, it is over with no lingering effects. It is not like on TV. It just tightens the muscles. They use the same idea for healing muscles and nerves, just to a lesser extent. http://www.tensunits.com/

[jaydot]

each time it is the citizen that sets the level of confrontation

and when that citizen is in a vehicle handcuffed behind and the officer opens the vehicle door and lays into his helpless prisoner?  when the citizen is standing still, handcuffed behind and the officer grabs him around the back of the head and starts punching him?  the woman being thrown around the cell and punched?  the man sitting on a seat and the officer rushing at him to deliver kicks and punches?

hmmm......

[Crow]

So these are a torture device as well as a restraint. A patent contrary to International Law. Now that raises interesting possibilities.

Not torture, it is to get them to stop acting unruly with a MILD deterrent. Better then fighting with them. Also I have been tasered (voluntarily), and it is not that bad, better then getting hit with a billy club, punched or shot. If they didn't commit crimes or act unruly, would be no need for them.

       

I practiced Karate and competition was supposedly at medium force, guess what? that doesn't exist.

Once in police hands nothing can stop them from use it for torture, specially if they can't defend themselves like undocumented people, drugs users (not necessarily violent) and others.

The last part ignores the part where we all are innocent until proven the opposite, police officers are not judges and when people is arrested is presumed innocent so, what crimes are you talking about?