50,000 volts for your thoughts
by Shawn Macomber
The American Spectator
12/23/04
A Taser looks something like a gun, but is in reality a non-lethal weapon that delivers 50,000 volts of electricity, which completely incapacitates suspects. Certainly, it cannot be suggested that police are misusing these weapons in every instance, or that Florida police are the only offenders, but since the introduction of Tasers barely a year ago use-of-force reports have gone through the roof in the Sunshine State. Reports show Tasers being routinely and, often dubiously, used on children, the mentally ill, fleeing suspects, as well as cuffed suspects and -- yes, further -- cuffed suspects locked in the back of police cruisers.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7548
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The American Spectator
12/23/04
A Taser looks something like a gun, but is in reality a non-lethal weapon that delivers 50,000 volts of electricity, which completely incapacitates suspects. Certainly, it cannot be suggested that police are misusing these weapons in every instance, or that Florida police are the only offenders, but since the introduction of Tasers barely a year ago use-of-force reports have gone through the roof in the Sunshine State. Reports show Tasers being routinely and, often dubiously, used on children, the mentally ill, fleeing suspects, as well as cuffed suspects and -- yes, further -- cuffed suspects locked in the back of police cruisers.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7548
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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