The "PCP Myth" about stronger/more dangerous BGs

[Empty Hands]

All in all, a pretty sobering tale of how a person can act when they are "under the influence."

The only influence he might have been under is his own mind. Most of the tools and techniques used to enforce compliance rely on pain. It only takes the right combination of rage or insanity to ignore that pain and keep up the fight.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

After stepping on his head a second time they were able to cuff his ankles and then restrain his hands that had been behind his back since being cuffed to his ankles as well. They got him into the vehicle and took him to a hospital.

We used to refer to the hand-irons, flexicuffs on the feet, and another set of flexis holding both together as 'The Samsonite'. Used on kickers and spitters, mostly.

 

[Drac]

We used to refer to the hand-irons, flexicuffs on the feet, and another set of flexis holding both together as 'The Samsonite'. Used on kickers and spitters, mostly.

We use a nylon belt made just for those who feel the need to kick..The last guy that tried to kick an officer in the face only wound up hitting my baton with his shins, the years of practicing fast draws paid off...We now carry a specially made hood for spitters, of course since ya cant always get to it I have had great success with the t-shirt pulled over the spitters head and face...

 

[Bikewr]

Fortunately, we haven't seen much in the way of PCP use locally for some time. We had a couple of well-publicized incidents; one in which an officer trying to fight with one of these guys ended up shooting him because nothing else was working...

One of our officers, off-duty, was involved in an incident where a PCP-addled individual was amusing himself by throwing his body through glass doors in a residential area. Then he'd just run out on the street. He'd done this half-a-dozen times by the time the police arrived, and he had cuts and lacerations over most of his body.
Just a week or so later, still wearing bandages and stitches, he stood by the highway with a pistol, shooting randomly at passing motorists. He was taken into custody alive only because he had run out of ammunition...