You Say Tomato ...... I Say Conflict Of Interest

Canadian Associations Of Chiefs Of Police
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This is ground that Alison has plowed before, but given events of the last few days it bears revisiting.

Last August, the Canadian Associations Of Chiefs Of Police held their big annual conference in Montreal.

And one of their 'platinum' sponsors was Taser International.

Which, according to the program notes for the meeting, means that the good folks that make and sell electrical conductance weapons that don't actually kill people (ie. cardiac arrthymias kill people, not 50,000 volt jolts) gave the Chiefs of Police $25,000.

Which, again, given events of the last few days, begs the following question......

If a group of not-so-fine folks that manufacture and sell opiates that don't really kill people (ie. brainstem suppression of respiratory centers kills people, not heroin) were to give the Chiefs a big whack-o-cash, would they suddenly call, en masse, for injectable narcotics for all the officers in their charge so that they could be used to pacify any and all trouble makers they come into contact with?



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Sound crazy? Sure thing. But consider this.....A compound called Naloxone can reverse the brainstem-mediated respiratory suppression caused by opioids....But a cardiac arrest brought on by those non-jolt-assisted arrthymias? Well, that's a different story entirely.

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