Carol, thanks. New this morning gunfire breaks out on a West Philadelphia street injuring two most event people. It happened around midnight at 52nd and spruce street. It is not clear what led to the various police say both men are in stable condition. Twenty yearold suspect is now in custody. Detectives are working to sort out that motive. Philadelphias l and i officials will return to the scene of the partial Building Collapse later this morning. Eyewitness news at 4900 block of kingsessing a avenue. We are told a portion of the homes rear wall came down just after 12 30. No one was injured but as you can see there was a good deal have of damage left behind there. And developing right now shots are fired inside of new Orleans International airport. Police say a man a attack Security Guards as he charged through the terminal. Cbs news correspondent terry okita has latest details from overnight. Reporter police and rescue crews flooded new Orleans Armstrong International Airport friday
Evening shifts the remaining during the day. And on average, there is about ten officers per, district station, the directive is clear to the cit officers, their primary responsibility is to respond to incidents where individuals are in crisis. And effectively a person in crisis can be any and every one of us, not just someone who has a Mental Health background. The idea simply put as the chief pointed out, we started this process in terms of giving the clear direction to the department back in may of 2011 when the chief issued a bulletin, basically telling everyone to slow down, there is no need to create an exit dentcy if one does not exist. If they present a threat to themselves we have all of the time in the world and going to utilize that in order to mitigate whatever crisis there might be. With that said as the chief has pointed out. I think that we have had tremendous success in just getting our processes to slow down as we do this level of engagement. And but at the same time,
Capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles and basically constricting your muscles. But mechanically, you fire something . There are two probes that come out of the Weapon System itself creating a positive and a negative contact. Once those or once that connection is made, then, electricity goes through the person for a cycle of up to 5 seconds. How long . We are talking about three amps of electricity, i believe, they are at 50,000 volts or so. But it is the amp rage that makes the impact not necessarily the volts itself. But what it does is captures the muscles and keeps the person from doing anything further. And have you ever been tased yourself . I am schedule to be tased sooner rather than later. The chief has been and i have. Based on his experience thus far. How do you feel about the posbility of being tase . . I would rather be tased than struck with a baton, we teach all as all do if you are going to deploy the baton you use it against the bony areas of a persons bo
Pain perception in many instances. With that being said, do i want to use weapons that are only about pain compliance or use a Weapon System that is about controlling and stopping that person from doing any further aggressive behavior than what they are doing and our policy is if you look at the policy. It is not about using the policy against someone who is simply noncompliant. That would be a violation of the policy. It is about using potentially that Weapon System against someone who is active, state of aggression towards the officers and or the public themselves. So, with that said, it is a Weapon System that controls as opposed to uses pain as a means of acquiring compliance. I have a couple of follow ups, but i know that the chair has a question. Actually this probably dove tails with his questions, but for all of us to really understand, could you explain how electronic controlled weapon, a taser works . It works by simply, capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles an
Simply noncompliant. That would be a violation of the policy. It is about using potentially that Weapon System against someone who is active, state of aggression towards the officers and or the public themselves. So, with that said, it is a Weapon System that controls as opposed to uses pain as a means of acquiring compliance. I have a couple of follow ups, but i know that the chair has a question. Actually this probably dove tails with his questions, but for all of us to really understand, could you explain how electronic controlled weapon, a taser works . It works by simply, capturing the Electrical Systems within your muscles and basically constricting your muscles. But mechanically, you fire something . There are two probes that come out of the Weapon System itself creating a positive and a negative contact. Once those or once that connection is made, then, electricity goes through the person for a cycle of up to 5 seconds. How long . We are talking about three amps of electricity,