Police departments should be furnished with human-sized nets (like giant butterfly nets) made out of strong nylon cords or hemp rope fibers. All the police officers would have to do is put the nets over the person’s body and rush in and pull the tie cord at the bottom to prevent him/her from getting out. Then the police officers would put the person into a straitjacket like those used to control violent people who live in mental institutions.

I was watching the news one Sunday morning on which they showed a Black man (a relative of the founder of Black Lives Matter) being tasered by policemen. He died from cardiac arrest at the hospital.

On New Year's Day on Muskoday First Nation, an 18-year-old man was found to be in possession of drugs, a machete and a homemade electrical weapon.

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yes, tasers are lethal weapons…. period. As for de-funding the police…. bad idea. But, as for more oversight in regard to our police departments and their specific budget line expenditures… yeah, for sure. (…and as for the human butterfly nets… what a fantastical idea!!! ….lol ;)

There simply is no sense in killing a person when there are many police officers standing around who could successfully use a capture net and straitjacket.

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"The two Tasers are functioning. They do show there's an electrical current being discharged, but without really examining them there's no way of telling how powerful they are or if the voltage can compare to what police officers are issued," said Willie.

I propose a less violent method of capturing out-of-control people who may be suffering a mental psychotic break, drug- or alcohol-induced episode.

I think those Tasers should be discontinued as items that police officers carry. That same TV news report said that a high number of people per year in the U.S. die as a result of being shocked with those instruments of torture.

Look into the history of TASER and the fabricated condition of “excited delirium” to justify deaths they cause. It might make you a “defund the police” person.

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The household materials used to make the devices are inexpensive and instructions for building them can be found online.

The idea would save the lives of people who are going through a bad episode and would return to normal once they were given medication to help them.

I am not a “defund the police” person. We need good police officers who care about people. I support those and think all Asheville police officers should have bought-for-them bulletproof vests.

It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.

They are designed to deliver an electric current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing "neuromuscular incapacitation."

In Canada, stun guns or Tasers, which deliver a jolt of electricity, are a prohibited weapon. Only law enforcement officers are permitted to carry them.

"Our frontline officers are always on guard with the increase in the number of firearms we've been seizing off the streets and have to be aware of.

Shouldn’t all budegt line items be reviewed? How about the effort that goes into developing the silly proclamations each month.

Before we consider your butterfly net method, I suggest you spend a day in a ride around with an officer. Your method would become the next tic tok challenge. Have you tested your method, after you do this, I would like to hear how easy it is.

"In my 15 years of service, these are the first two times I've seen these types of devices seized off the street." said Sgt. Travis Willie of the Prince Albert Police Service.

There's a new street weapon surfacing in Saskatchewan which law enforcement members are hoping is not the start of a trend.