Feel free to propose a method, and we'll all object to that.
Stopping an uncooperative person is guaranteed to be upsetting to somebody. That is fundamental to the problem.
Every method tried so far has been objected to by squeamish people who refuse to understand. If we let criminals run amok, then we get a failed state, and then armed gangs form to impose their own idea of a justice system. I assure you, those armed gangs will be far more brutal than our fancy westernized police system.
So we medicalized the problem. That appeases more people than the cheap standardized billy club. We'll just ignore the needle-stick biohazard problem, because at least it won't look like a replay of Rodney King.
Stopping an uncooperative person is guaranteed to be upsetting to somebody. That is fundamental to the problem.
Every method tried so far has been objected to by squeamish people who refuse to understand. If we let criminals run amok, then we get a failed state, and then armed gangs form to impose their own idea of a justice system. I assure you, those armed gangs will be far more brutal than our fancy westernized police system.
So we medicalized the problem. That appeases more people than the cheap standardized billy club. We'll just ignore the needle-stick biohazard problem, because at least it won't look like a replay of Rodney King.