[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: As tasers (tasercams) get deployed across New Jersey – the last “hold-out” state – they are reported in Camden to have been fire only once when displayed 6 times and “used judiciously”: “when a police officer has the option of either shooting a person or using a Taser, we prefer they use […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Queensland Police are expected to have body-worn video cameras under a plan being considered, although this will be very expensive. A 2011 review – which was only released under Freedom of Information statutes – found Taser Cams were operationally ineffective, but recommended investigating body-worn cameras to record all use-of-force incidents after an […]
[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Over the past 18 months there has been a fourfold increase in the number of times officers drew their Tasers. London Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones has called for the Met’s entire stock of Taser weapons to be routinely fitted with video cameras in a bid to ensure officer accountability.] MayorWatch, by […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The head of the Ottawa police union accepts police oversight (the minimum!), but, like the police chief, says there isn’t a pressing need for talks around de-escalation tactics here because local officers already do it all the time. “To echo the chief’s comments, we already do a lot of de-escalation. […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Why are “liberal-minded” citizens reacting so negatively to Ontario plans to allow more front-line police to use tasers? Tasers, ex-Senate chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence says, will be more acceptable if (1) Tasers cannot be activated without audio-video accompaniment, (2) training and recertification standards are improved, and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : There are important limitation of police videos, but … the outgoing Ontario Special Investigations Unit director, Ian Scott, says police should be embracing the concept of video imagery – “lapelcams” and especially all police stun guns should be equipped with “Tasercams”. (He doesn’t directly mention TASER’s AXON system.) “For $400, this […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Police who taser a suspect report he was holding a machete. Video from the tasercam contradicts this and they are sanctioned. Cameras are become an increasinly important tool for establisgin what actually happens. They were put on trial: “These two officers were looked up to by many officers,” Deputy Chief Darryl […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (Revised google-translation from Polish; the original text appears below the translation, in italics.) Currently, it seems, Central Bureau of Investigation and anti-terrorist police have access to tasers (???). Tenders are out for more tasers. Soon there will be a rollout of 600 tasers with cameras to police patrolling in zones where […]