Police departments across the country are embracing the continued use of stun guns and receiving additional funding for these alternative self-defense weapons. In fact, the accidental death of a 24-year old man who had been subdued with a stun gun in April has not deterred Columbus, Ohio police from continued use of Taser stun guns – a move seen repeatedly throughout law enforcement country-wide.
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Testimony at the Taser inquiry in Vancouver, British Columbia has led some people to believe that police officers aren’t adequately trained on when to use a Taser. It was stated that the Taser’s manual doesn’t specify the difference between active and passive resistance, and so people are now concerned that officers are going to confuse the two and possibly use a Taser in the wrong situation. Well, if we’re concerned about officers not knowing the difference between active and passive resistance, assuming they didn’t even have access to a Taser, shouldn’t we be more concerned about the fact that they’re carrying firearms? But people aren’t concerned about that, because it’s not new. Also probably because we naturally assume that police officers who pass through the Academy have enough common sense to know when to subdue someone. There are always exceptions, but luckily those are few and far between.
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I thought it is appropriate to show that supporters of Air Tasers aren’t completely biased all the time and that we don’t support the abuse of Tasers.
In 2004, Police in Brattleboro, Vermont were accused of violating a man’s civil rights when they stormed his residence, dragged him from a hot tub, and Tasered him as part his arrest on drunken driving charges. The man was initially charged with resisting arrest and assault of a police officer, but those charges were later dropped after police video and audio recordings showed the possibility of the officers not following protocol.
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People often question when it’s appropriate for police to use a Air Taser on a subject. An angry speeder? Probably not. A belligerent drunk resisting arrest? Maybe. A person threatening use of a weapon? Most likely. A drug user wielding and pricking officers with a syringe? That’s where the gray area fades into definite black. The possibility of communicable diseases is more than enough reason to subdue a subject with a Air Taser, and there is no argument in the world that could convince me otherwise. The distance a Air Taser allows is invaluable in this case, as no one knows what could be in that needle, and a man-to-man struggle is just too dangerous.
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The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) recently volunteered to be Tasered, as well as the Alberta Solicitor General and his parliamentary assistant. The three men were watching a demonstration of the Taser during a visit to the Edmonton K Division’s emergency response team and William Elliot, the Commissioner, was invited to be Tased. The other two men followed the invitation by volunteering, and each was stunned for five seconds by the typical 50,000 volts.
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Police across the country have used them. Medical examiners across the country have blamed them. And now advocates have to defend them. Taser guns are taking the heat for deaths which have occurred soon after their use on the victim, and Taser International isn’t taking it lying down. Taser International is taking legal action against medical examiners who they say are incorrectly naming the Taser gun as the cause of death.
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Last Friday in Elizabethtown, NC, police responded to a scene where a man had driven a vehicle through the front doors of a bank, and when confronted the man began waving a knife and yelling for police to shoot him. The ordeal quickly turned into a suicide attempt as the man began stabbing himself in the chest. Officers quickly subdued the man with a Taser and he was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
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Taser International has been awarded a $2.6 million contract by the United States military to develop new technologies. One of their latest offerings developed before the contract award is a conversion kit for police riot shields, which essentially enables the shields to carry an electrical charge in the event of unnecessary contact by rioters or suspects. Projects developed under the new contract are likely to be on a much larger scale, focusing more-so on military-grade weaponry.
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Minnesota State Patrol troopers were cleared in the death of a man who was Tasered after being involved in an accident and refusing to cooperate with officers. The cause of death was determined as drug abuse.
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Today was day one of the 2008 OLETC Mock Prison Riot in Moundsville, West Virginia. OLETC stands for “The Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization.” This riot is held to demonstrate up and coming corrections and law enforcement technologies and give field-related personnel the opportunity to use these technologies in simulated scenarios. The technologies are then evaluated for effectiveness, and suggestions for areas of improvement are welcomed.
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