What: Montpelier Taser Committee Meeting
When: Monday, May 23rd at 6:15 PM
Where: City Managers Conference Room, Montpelier City Hall
View archived video clip of May 11th Montpelier City Council proceedings concerning the appointment of the Taser Committee, here.
View related documents, here.
Excerpted recruitment notice:
“The City Council would like the committee to specifically consider and make recommendations about the following: assessment of need, appropriate policy and standards, training requirements and public accountability for use or display. Additionally, the Council would like the committee to recommend a public engagement process for both the committee and for the City Council after receiving the committee’s report. The Council is interested in all perspectives but would like to hear, particularly, from the mental health community, law enforcement, schools, the medical community and the legal community.” The City Council expects to receive the committee’s report by Friday, September 30th for discussion at the October 12th City Council Meeting. Volunteers should understand that this committee will meet during the summer in order to meet the deadline. …
Any city resident who shows up to the initial Taser committee meeting on Monday, May 23rd and, wants to serve on committee, has an opportunity to do so (however anyone serving on the committee will need to be around during the Summer in order to do so).
The Taser committee meetings will be open to the public, including non-residents of course.
View an updated Informational Presentation on Montpelier, Vermont and Tasers, here.
Taser folks designed them to be non lethal intervention, so the base question for me is around the number of times they would have prevented the need for lethal intervention……
They have become a means for non contact intervention, meaning it is easier for a cop to shoot you with a volton than to walk up and lay hands upon you, or mace or whatever….
More and more isolation from actual contact with the people they are charged with protecting and serving??? I would rather have them go back to the British model and away from the ROBO cop fantasy of a lot of the misfits getting into the field.