[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A conservative London councillor calls for taser creep: the police should deploy Taser guns on aggressive drunks. Camden council said Mr Bucknall’s views did not reflect those of the local authority… ]] London Evening Standard, by James Watt A London councillor has sparked controversy by calling for police to deploy Taser guns […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A County Sheriff Dave White is refusing to publicly disclose how he determined that no rules or policies were broken during an incident on 7 October 2013 where one of his jail employees used a Taser four times on a mentally disabled woman in an effort to force her to change her […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a comprehensive ruling that limits the use of Tasers by police against low-level offenders who seem to pose little threat and may have mental illness. The specific case involves an emotionally disturbed individual who was shot with a Taser. He was described as […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The user of Tasers by the Metropolitan Police Service (M’PS – London Police) needs to be ‘very closely monitored’ and ‘a last resort’, a report, issued the London Police and Crime Committee has said today. The 2012 decision to nearly triple the number of MPS officers trained to use Taser and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The London Assembly report “Arming the Met” (Met = London police) challenges the decision to triple the number of tasers for front-line police, failing to explain why more weapons are needed or properly consult the public about the deployment. Usage and usage-creep are expected to rise, especially if training courses are […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The debate on taser-rollout continues in Ontario. Critics point to the number of deaths of people arrested after being shocked and say they fear Tasers will be a replacement for poor policing skills. Police say thjere wilkl be adequate training and police must follow strict guidelines.]]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The Conversation [an independent source of analysis, commentary and news from the university and research sector ), Monash University [20 minutes out of Melbourne], publishes this inciteful commentary on two recent taser coronial findings. Five Australians have died following use of the taser. In the case of Brazilian Roberto Curti, there was […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser use in England rose by 45% in 2011 and the numbers are expected to continue to increase. Mistaken deployment of Taser on a Lancashire blind man – mistaking his blind-stick for a taser – and other incidents spark calls for more police control and restraint. A few weeks earlier, James McCarthy, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: When the police ask for extra weaponry in the struggle to defend our civil liberties, it’s time to start worrying. Last June the Police Federation wrote to the prime minister asking for the number of Tasers to be treble. The tasering of an elderly blind man who’d already suffered from two strokes […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: Is it appropriate for police to taser pet dogs who are getting sometwhat aggressive? Surely there is over-reaction in this case. Schoolgirl Sydni Ryan, 12, suffered a graze on the shin as she guided a friend’s Staffordshire bull terrier collie cross back into her house. ‘They had no reason to Taser and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: New Zealand police are confident that introducing the new X2 double-taser will improve policing – since the X26 often didn’t work! Two cases where the X26 failed to incapacitate leading to shooting. This is strongly criticized by the “Campaign against the Taser”who argue the police need to develop de-escalation techniques, and by […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Ther Australian “Green Left” comes out strong;ly against the use of tasers, flowing the 18 March death of Roberto Laudisio Curti. The teaser5 is not “non-lethal” and the evidence indicates police do not use Tasers as an alternative to deadly force, since gun use does not decline with the introduction of tasers. […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A series of four carefully-researched articles in the Poughkeepsie Journal based on data – 467 Taser use reports from 19 local police agencies – obtained through the Freedom of Information Law shows systematic taser abuse by police officers: (1) Blacks are targeted much more often than their numbers in communities would predict; […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Spurred by an explosion in Taser use by police, a state legislator from Chicago is pushing a bill that would force local police departments to inform the state of every shock an officer delivers to a civilian – just as they have to do in the United Kingdom.Some officers, it appears, are […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A typical case of the taser used for compliance: a woman jumps the line-up at a McDonald’s drive-in. She refuses to wait in line. Staff call the police, she still refuses (no violence on her part). After 20 minutes of refusing: … “Two or three officers entered the car with her […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Gary Hesterberg, walks two small dogs – not pitbulls! – and is tasered for violating Park byelaws, walking the dogs off-leashs and refusing to give the officer his right name. We have already posted this information. It is now escalating, picked up a Democrat congresswoman . “Many of my constituents are understandably […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A police officer steps in to break up a fight between two 17-year-old cousins punching it out in the school grounds, like kids often do, no-one else involved, tasers one of them and arrests him. The school director and police say this was an appropriate response by the police-officer. Watch the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Pakistani Aslam was stopped by the police on New Year’s Eve after leaving a petrol station on the M6 without paying for £20 worth of petrol. During this, despite being disabled and being in a wheelchair he was attacked by a number of officers with batons/koshes and tasered and was subsequently denied […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Aaron Hayward’s lawyer charges that the Cleveland police conducted a racially motivated, illegal home invasion during the early morning hours of January 23, 2011. They broke down the front door of the Hayward family home using the butt of a shotgun. 39-year-old Aaron Hayward was tased 5 or 6 times in […]