Handcuffs??

[leadcounsel]

Apparently I'm the sole voice in dissent. Yes, I have flex cuffs and real cuffs on hand just in case.

Would they be useful, maybe not. But I can envision a scenario where they are useful. Maybe the assailant is "detained" and not showing interest in leaving but the cops are 30 minutes away. Perhaps give him the cuffs and instructions to put them on. Prone him out, etc. If you prone someone out it's very hard for him to get up quickly.

Or for instance, assailant is wounded and no longer a threat, but still functioning. Laying there bleeding out on your living room. I'm very interested in his immediate apprehension at the scene, not his version the next day. Give him flex cuffs and tell him to cuff himself.

Probably several situations where you'd want him cuffed. If you have someone else available it becomes much easier.

You can secure his hands, feet, hands-to-feet, secure him to a fixed object etc.

For those that are completely satisfied with this felon running off to come back and fight another day when you're not home, burning down your house, etc... not what I'd want.

 

[jlr1962]

That sounds like a good use for handcuffs, but I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Tirod]

Once the individual is restrained by cuffs, you are 100% responsible for his welfare. If he then decides to resist - you can't shoot him. If someone comes onto the scene and knows him, you have to restrain them from harming him. If your guard animal takes a dislike to him and attempts mayhem, you have to stop it.

A detainee is 100% in your care and any further injury is on you. If he strokes out from massive overdoses, or starts choking, or whatever - you then have to provide whatever lifesaving care they need.

Major case in the news lately. Six LEO's indicted.

Cuff him after you had to shoot him? No way to prove you didn't shoot him after he was cuffed. Consider how that would be handled in your area.

LEO's go thru an academy which explores these issues and how the intruder must - like it or not - have their remaining Constitutional rights respected. It's not going to go well if someone in the family comes into the room, thinks they see the person who's been stalking them, and makes the bad decision to end him while he was down and cuffed.

Why put yourself in that situation?

Shoot/Don't shoot is complicated enough.

 

[Robert]

Asked and answered.