Policemen without any medical training are injecting and murdering people with drugs.
This is a disturbing (and new) phenomenon. At least for someone outside the US.
This is a disturbing (and new) phenomenon. At least for someone outside the US.
(edit: to be clear, I am saying that yes, ordering somebody else to do it is morally equivalent to doing it yourself... if it's wrong to do it yourself, it's just as wrong to order somebody else to do it)
Pointing out that the police aren't injecting it themselves is like pointing out that [insert name of murderous dictator here] didn't actually kill anybody with their own hands.
I don't think police should be ordering EMS to administer Ketamine, but even if they are that is far different from doing it themselves.
You cannot say “give them ketamine” and just leave the dose up to the paramedic and call it safe.
The administration of medically unnecessary ketamine does not belong in the toolbox of things that the police request, or more realistically "order". It is irresponsible to assume police will defer to judgement of professionals with training and a code of ethics, when they are solely focused on making a person comply.
There are enough terrible public policy decisions where people later claim "we didn't know". People are saying now this is a recipe for abuses and unnecessary deaths.
But if they are requesting, ordering and even determining dosages is completely disturbing and inappropriate.