Well now I know I woke up in bizzaro land, seems Nashville police are using sedatives on suspects:

http://www.wsmv.com/news/16844880/detail.html#-

Now while I agree they need to be able to control the most unruly ones this just smacks a bit too much of Soviet Russia.

My friend reminded me of when that soviet sub sank a few years ago, All the wives and family were crying in public, on TV, and there was some woman walking through the crowd giving out injections without being asked. she would just walk up to a particularly hysterical person, slide the hypo into their shoulder, and walk on.

dunno, getting mighty creepy out there