Let's say 20 pounds. Let's say a small one, nine pounds. Can you hold it steady? When it starts moving, can you hold it without moving? No.
Imagine, we're dealing with human beings of 120, 210, 260, or 300 pounds. When they feel the energy, the electrical shock...I did experience that at home—15 amps, 110 volts, and what was my reaction? Ouch!
Nobody stays there. So when we apply a push stun, the client will move and will then get multiple burn marks, because electrical energy will burn the skin.
The second mode of deployment is probe mode, allowing some probes attached to wires from a preferred distance. That's what I talked about earlier, the probe attached to the wire. It connects with two locations on the human body. The transfer of energy causes the muscles to contract, a nervous mass as well, causing the client to go to the ground—all this to try to change their behaviour.
How does it work? With the cartridge you have, basically the probes are embedded inside the cartridge. When it sits inside the conducted energy weapon, the top probe is parallel to the floor. It works with the aiming system of the weapon system. So the top probe will deploy straight forward and the bottom probe will deploy eight degrees downwards.
What does it mean? It means that for every seven feet of distance between me and my client, the muzzle end of my weapon system and the client, I can expect 13 inches of spread between the probes. So if I am 14 feet from my client, I can expect about 26 inches between the probes.
How does it relate to the IMIM? As always, the primary objective of any intervention is public safety. That's what we aim for. The best intervention causes the least harm or damage. So every time an officer uses a conducted energy weapon, there is a circle of situational factors.
What is my best option here to respond and control the threat that I have in front of me? OC spray is very painful. I have been exposed to OC spray. The contamination process can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and 10 minutes.
There's the baton. The baton may cause bone breakage, lacerations, serious injury, exchange of body fluids. We don't know who the client is for the officer's safety in this instance.
The conducted energy weapon will control the individual, and after the exposure, it's over. You get back on your feet, you sit in your chair, or, if you want, you can continue and fight again.
I'm going to tell you how I felt after 15 seconds of exposure. I felt like I had just finished a workout at the gym. I was tired. That's how I felt. I could get up and fight if I wanted to. There were 56 of us who took 15 seconds. It's part of our research. The report will come out probably this year—right, Bruce?