tasers

More cops have been given Tasers, and they're using them.

The jail's track record with electrified shields suggests this might not go so well.

Tasers kill, and yet the NYPD is stocking up on them as a "buffer before you have to use a firearm."

The film uses police interviews, legal testimony, and TASER International's own company research, as it crafts a portrait of innately dangerous weapons that can—and do—kill.

Iman Morales fell head first to his death after being tased by police in 2008, and his family's lawsuit against the city can proceed.

Meyer, who is now a law student, thinks that better solutions to increased violence against transit employees is plexiglass partitions and more policing.

bus drivers and train operators were assaulted 94 times last year, an increase from 72 incidents in 2010, but we still find claims that Tasers will "end" assaults, dubious. So does the MTA.

Following the release of the Rand Corp. report commissioned by the NYPD,

The New York Police Department intends to begin arming sergeants with Taser