Marcelo D’Alessandro, Secretary of the Ministry which is now in the hands of Diego Santilli, highlighted in the context of a radio interview about the need to “formalize the use of non-lethal weapons, such as Tasers”. The statement is given examples installed by the Government which seeks to present to the security agenda as the priority axis towards a 2019 which is electoral. It is in this sense that the past Monday, December 3 the holder of the portfolio of security, Patricia Bullrich, formalised a resolution laying down new provisions for use of firearms.
It was yesterday that the head of Government of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, argued that the city would seek to accede to the Protocol in question whose jurisdiction priori focuses on the Federal Police, gendarmerie, Coast Guard and security police Aeroportuaria.Antecedentes in the city in 2010 and with the operational metropolitan police, the City Government sought to make a purchase of Tasers. However, the process is judicializó and initially justice forbade its use. By 2015, however, reversed the High Court Buenos Aires, by a majority, the decision of the Appeals Chamber in the contentious administrative and tributary, and enabled its use. However, following the political cost warned the Metropolitan Police gave up on its implementation. little lethal or non-lethal?
The argument supported by the Buenos Aires Secretary of security is false. The taser guns can and have caused many deaths in their use. This is largely why Amnesty International and the United Nations have expressed their concern about this practice, ensuring that the weapons could be lethal, and supported by a declaration of the United Nations, raised that they could constitute a form of torturaLos mass media maintain a narrative that stimulates as much as conviction. It is the amplification media that creates a spiral of fear and outrage audiences, by pressing control agencies such as the police and officials. Hopefully justice can stop this advance.
