There is a difference between pulling a suspects arms out to cuff him (relatively painless. Not a punishment) and using a taser on them, which inflicts quite a bit of pain (punishment before any due process). I am not anti-law enforcement, I just don't think they should be resorting to inflicting pain on suspects without exhausting their alternatives. The police have a hard job, and I sympathIze with their plight, but that is the job. It requires patience and a cool head. I would not be a good LEO. I know this, and avoided that profession. Their job is to remove their emotions from the equation and take the suspect into custody with the least danger and damage possible, to themselves, the public AND the suspect. Using a taser on the suspect may indeed be necessary at times, but not as often as it appears police are using it. A taser isn't a short-cut to eliminate hard work. Police exhisted without Tasers for hundreds of years. I don't believe they're suddenly more efficient now that they carry them.