Police handcuffing 5-year-old

Okay, I have a question. Think about handcuffs. Think about the size of a five-year-old's wrists. What's wrong with this picture?

Or do the police have special teensy-weensy handcuffs for when there's bad ◊◊◊◊ going down in the kindergarten?

"We just got a 644 called in: there's been a nasty hairpulling down at the creche. Take the smallest pair of handcuffs and the nightstick decorated with bunnies and teddy-bears."
 
Dr Adequate said:
Okay, I have a question. Think about handcuffs. Think about the size of a five-year-old's wrists. What's wrong with this picture?

Or do the police have special teensy-weensy handcuffs for when there's bad ◊◊◊◊ going down in the kindergarten?

"We just got a 644 called in: there's been a nasty hairpulling down at the creche. Take the smallest pair of handcuffs and the nightstick decorated with bunnies and teddy-bears."
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That's a good question, but handcuffs can hold pretty small wrists. Also, they have these new plastic cuffs that can go down to any size.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Okay, I have a question. Think about handcuffs. Think about the size of a five-year-old's wrists. What's wrong with this picture?

Or do the police have special teensy-weensy handcuffs for when there's bad ◊◊◊◊ going down in the kindergarten?
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Certainly when I was at primary school at about six years old the handcuffs the police brought round to show us didn't fit us. As the copper said: "Because we don't arrest children". That's when I resolved to end my life of crime when I went to secondary school. Sadly, world domination eluded me, so I'm still working for a living.

As Mycroft says, cable ties are sometimes used as temporary handcuffs from what I've seen on TV. Don't know how widespread it is in the US or the UK. I'd sort of expect it to be done on a force-by-force basis, but I dunno. I tend to find cable ties quite fiddly, and can't really imagine them being easier to apply than a set of cuffs, but they must have some benefits.

(If I'd been asked I would have sworn this thread was older than a few months old. Perhaps I'm thinking of another one).
 
richardm said:
As Mycroft says, cable ties are sometimes used as temporary handcuffs from what I've seen on TV. Don't know how widespread it is in the US or the UK. I'd sort of expect it to be done on a force-by-force basis, but I dunno. I tend to find cable ties quite fiddly, and can't really imagine them being easier to apply than a set of cuffs, but they must have some benefits.
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The plastic handcuffs are not cable ties. They resemble cable ties and work pretty much the same way, but there are differences. And they're most common used when several sets of cuffs might be necessary.
 
CFLarsen said:
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Don't forget to check the video.

Is this OK with you? It isn't with me.
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Choices and consequences, who said that they are bantam punches, have you been kicked in the balls by a five year old?

Does it hurt less, why should schools have to deal with out of control kids, do you work in one, have you ever been hit by a sixteen year old socio path?


If a five year old stabs you with a knife do you still bleed?

If the problem is caused by poverty or whatever why does the scvhool have to deal with it, just because you think that children are magic little elves, choices and consequences.
 
I was out with my parents and my 8 year old nephew at the mall. He was caught stealing some candy while no one was looking. We had the mall security handcuff him and pretend to arrest him to scare the crap out of him. Something like this can correct years of problems in the future. I think there are definintely times to cuff a kid that's out of control.
 
There is another issue here that may or may not be discussed in all these 19 pages, which is that cuffs might be the least physical option to restrain a child that is truly out of control. How would this thread have been different had we seen the police officer trying to subdue a fighting child by other manual restraint?

I suspect the response by some would have been even more indignant.
 
Handcuffs

Why do I have the feeling that this 5 year old will be handcuffed many times in her life?
 
TragicMonkey said:
Bumping for Claus, who is now insisting, in other threads, that people provide evidence for their claims. I think it only fair that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.


One more time:

What was the "definite physical harm" that the little girl took from being handcuffed?
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Did Claus ever answer this?
 
Hang in there guys....Maybe we can arrange counseling for the claus obsession.


maybe some claus quotes in the sig will lessen the itch?
 
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