For the few people on staff who still carry oc spray, my department issues sabre red. It is not taser effective, but it works quite well as long as the person you are spraying is not on some kind of super chemical cocktail or super mentally ill. And race has never been a factor for it working or not working for me. The sabre red has 2 million shu's while Fox Labs produces a spray with 5.3 million shu's. But scoville heat units really do not tell the story, what you need to look at is the percentage of major capsaicinoids contained in the spray. That's where the burn and the pain actually come from. Bear sprays are rated to 1%-2% major capsaicinoids while the sabre red has 1.33%. Which I believe is the most in a spray designed for humans. Most commercial oc sprays run 0.2%-0.7% and are too weak to be truly effective on a motivated or angry attacker. Still a good quality oc spray with more than 1% major capsaicinoids is another tool in your toolbox and one that will work much of the time. And sometimes a 357 hole in the head is not the prudent first move, not under rule of law anyway.
