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Taser: An officer's weapon of choice

November 13, 2011 4:01 PM

The Taser is touted for saving lives and preventing injury, but a new study says that some police officers reach for the weapon too quickly. David Martin reports.

Taser: An officer's weapon of choice

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by dustproduction April 14, 2012 7:48 PM EDT
If you do not know about the famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo please look it up.
YouTube is riddled with videos on cops behaving badly with tasers, such as Tasing people in there 70's. I suggest to you that arm with tasers the police look for reasons to use it, in the same way the the "guards" in the Prison Experiment punished innocent people placed in the role of a "prisoner" by the flip of a coin.

Taser International no longer claims the devices are "non- lethal", instead saying they "are more effective and safer than other use-of-force options". The study done by Pierre Savard, Ing., PhD., Ecole Polythechnique de Montreal, et al., for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), indicated that the threshold of energy needed to induce deadly ventricular fibrillation decreased dramatically with each successive burst of pulses; however, one pulse may provide enough energy to induce deadly ventricular fibrillation in some cases. The threshold for women may be less.
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by SpeedRacer232 April 2, 2012 10:14 PM EDT
Sometimes Tasers don't even work... like this guy: http://bitly.com/HCvuVl - he got shot directly and it didn't affect him at all. Why?
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by justiceforjames March 24, 2012 3:51 AM EDT
My best friend was killed march 17, 2012 (I believe the day this story aired?) He was killed by a DEP officer beating him and then being shot with a taser 3 times, after being in handcuffs already. News articles have reported mostly the the twisted story told to them by the officers covering up what they did, while witnesses have already come forward on news stations comments page, and on the local radio, saying that the incident didn't happen the way it was reported, and that the officers were in the wrong. Friends & family don't believe the story police have told. They believe the witnesses they heard, and they believe what is in their hearts, regarding the kindest, and most gentle man they knew.

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by akoerten March 17, 2012 2:18 AM EDT
Definitely a useful tool.. See both sides of the arguement, but in general it does more good than harm. I would say that a majority of the time tasers are used correctly and it has a positive effect on bad situations.
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by DCraigPrice November 26, 2011 7:30 PM EST
What if a child in your family was victim of one of these devices? What would you say when a father states this it is his "Constitutional Right" to discipline a child as he see fit even if it means binding a child by their wrists and ankles and threatening them by activating a taser gun. This is not a fabrication. This is a true story in Naples, Florida, and the father, who happens to be an attorney, is awaiting a trial on 1st and 3rd degree felony charges. The sad part is that a teenage girl has had her life ripped apart in the past 18 months, and it has ruined our family. Yes, I am the step-father, and I have been the one attempting to maintain some sort of normalcy in my family after this tragedy. Now, ask me if I think that these "taser guns" should be marketed to the public to anyone who can buy them and use them? (For you information this device was taken into evidence, and it emits 1,000,000 volts of electricity).
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by glaziers8669 November 19, 2011 11:23 PM EST
First of all I don't like the word taser.Instead we should use the words cattle prod.When the taser first came on the market it was to be used in lieu of deadly force only.Then it was a great weapon.Now the guidelines say it can be yoused to make people complie with orders (cattle prod).They use it on people 7 to 70.If someone did a line of coke 3 days before that is listed as cause of death.How did police get along before it came out?well they talked to people instead of reaching for a sometimes deadly weapon.Officers stop being lazy and do you job right.
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by sheshaker November 16, 2011 11:55 AM EST
A Trumbull, CT man died Sunday (11/13/11) after being Tasered three times by Bridgeport, CT police. http://patch.com/A-nJZV
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by jfischer507 November 16, 2011 12:08 AM EST
"We take dangerous situations and make them safer" ... Until some wife beater decides to pick one up.
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by nita2293 November 14, 2011 11:02 PM EST
November 14, 2011
BRIDGEPORT -- City police have identified the man who died Sunday in police custody as 51-year-old Ronald Cristiano of Trumbull.

Officers Victor Rodriguez and Minerva Feliciano were called to 98 Wilkins Ave. at 10:30 a.m. Sunday to help subdue the man, who police said later was acting erratically and resisting the efforts of the American Medical Response technicians to help him into the ambulance.

The agitated man tried to assault one of the medical technicians, police said. While trying to gain control of the subject, the police officers used their electronic control device at least three times to get the man into custody.
Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Police-ID-man-who-died-in-custody-2267236.php#ixzz1dks78k6y

This victim lost his father to alzheimers just 10 days ago November 3rd. His mother has lost both her husband and now son within 10 days of each other. Since when is it legal to shoot a man with a tazer because he chooses not to accept medical treatment? Let alone.. 3 times to his death!!! Police are responsible for the consequesces of their actions as any citizen would be. This is NOT a justified incident. It is outright MURDER!.
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by andy557 November 14, 2011 10:37 PM EST
Interesting. However this similar story was done in Canadian media years ago and they came to an interesting conclusion. With some of the X-26 stun guns they noticed that they malfunctioned giving the person more than 50,000 volts. Also it depends where the darts hit, and other factors like if the person they shoot has a bad hart to begin with. Look up "taser voltage can exceed specifications" on Youtube. Their use should be regulated, and shot not be used like someone turning on or shining a flashlight in your car.
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