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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by woodman on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:01PM (#14766377)
No kidding, this is exactly what pepperspray was invented for. Before I was even allowed to touch the stuff in the military I had to read a short history of it and a load of technical facts, oh and then get sprayed in the face before running an obstacle course...

I really don't see how cops are able to have their cake and eat it too, with the whole "gotta do whatever to get home at the end of the day" and "we bravely risk our lives to hold the thin blue line".

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by burntrelish1273 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:57PM (#14767350)
Sabre Red and similar pepper-sprays have a UV dye so it's possible to see on whom and where it was deployed under a blacklight.
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by woodman on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:19AM (#14767687)
That sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Anybody who was sprayed, even after they washed the orange crap off their face, is given away by the bloodshot eyes/red face/running nose and pungent smell. Also, I wonder how effective that would be if they put on sunblock[0] before the blacklight test.

[0] http://samanthagouldson.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/uv_an...

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by burntrelish1273 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:46AM (#14802034)
That's not what it's for. It's to determine where it was sprayed.
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