CEDs can readily be used as instruments of torture; they are designed to control through incapacitation, but also through inflicting pain. These devices have no legitimate place in the Santa Clara County prison system. I encourage fellow citizens to write to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and speak forcefully against the deployment of CEDs in the prison system.
"These service reductions represent the beginning of a public safety crisis with potentially catastrophic consequences if the NWS is unable to retain the staff necessary to maintain around-the-clock weather monitoring in California."
The firearms/lethal force armouries suggestion is just headline-grabbing nonsense. If this was needed, why wouldn't armed police be deployed rather than creating another trained force in our service?
