Some not so shocking reality: No Tasers, no rise in Rockford police injuries - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-tasers-no-rise-in-police-injuries.html
> Yowza! That's gotta smart if you're a Taser Inc. shareholder going long: > Taser International (NASDAQ:TASR > ) is one of today's worst > performing low-priced stocks, down 2...
Fort Worth is settling, for $2-million, a case in which a mentally ill man died after being tased for over 50 seconds. Per the standard operating procedure for most investigations of police activ...
More BART cop action : > Sources familiar with the matter, however, told The Chronicle that a > veteran sergeant in a moving patrol car fired his Taser several days > ag...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2010/04/firing-tasers-at-kids-on-bikes.html
I might be taking a break from writing about them, but law enforcement officials are still crazy with the tasers : > Indiana police say two officers have been placed on administrative...
I can understand why the driver called the cops, but can't figure why the cops couldn't handle an 82-year-old man : > Authorities have charged an 82-year-old man for punching a Chicag...
I'll admit that I don't know how these things go in Canada, but I know that here in the states, a statement like the following from a government sanctioned anything would have lawyers salivating...
In this week's cowardly police work corner, cops tase a 10-year-old boy , and their sheriff says it was justified: > PUEBLO, COLO. -- Sheriff's deputies who stunned with a Taser a >�...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/12/another-10-year-old-tased.html
Enough is enough is enough. They're not less than lethal. They're less than or equal to lethal, at best. They're not gun replacements. They're replacements for good police practices. They're no...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/12/stop-taser-torture-today.html
Daniel Buckner is dead after being tased 3-times : > Police say while they were trying to put Buckner in the van, he got > combative with Erlanger and Hamilton County correc...
Last year I wrote about the possibility of tasers making their way in police hands in NJ, the only state keeping them from police. The NJ Attorney General has given the green light to tasers in...
I'll write this once. It doesn't matter what was going on before this tasing to the neck . The suspect had his hands on the hood of the car. He was not even in the infamous "aggressive stance" th...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/11/surrendered-and-tased.html
As if there is any reasonable justification under the sky for tasing a TEN YEAR-OLD : > OZARK, Ark. — A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly > 10-year-old girl aft...
Not that we didn't know that already, but it's always affirming to see it in print : > A Taser that twice shocked Brian Cardall contributed to or caused > heart irregularities in�...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/11/taser-linked-to-death.html
Another death following tasing in CA : > San Bernardino police say a 19-year-old man has died after officers > used a Taser to subdue him at a board-and-care facility. > ...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-post-tasing-death.html
The author at Excited-Delirium , affectionately referred to here as Mr. E-D, notes that American media is widely ignoring Taser International's recommendation (or here ) that people not aim Tas...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-is-how-it-will-go.html
Another $100k+ settlement awarded for tasing: > A Spokane County reserve fund will pay some $112,000 to a man who > was shocked three times with a Taser by a deputy dur...
So says the manufacturer : > A company that makes Tasers has issued new guidelines to police who > use their product. > > Taser International maintains its devices are�...
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-tase-my-heart-bro.html
A 38 year-old man is dead, post-tasing : > BRADENTON — A Bradenton man died at Manatee Memorial Hospital > early today after he fled police and an officer used a Taser o...
From a legal news source : > Most recently, Sandra Brown settled a Taser suit against the city of > Golden Valley. Police used a Taser on Brown while she was sitting in ...
More tasers costing Joe taxpayer: > $200K in Golden Valley, Minnesota > > $55K in Portland, Oregon >
PostBlog: Tasered While Black has much more on this heinous incident including a link to video of the arrest. In Merced, CA, white cops tase a wheelchair-bound black man : > MERCED -- The�...
From Modesto, CA : > An inmate at the Stanislaus County Jail in downtown Modesto died > after jailers used a Taser to subdue him as he was being moved to > another ce...
Pam has a post up about tasers in schools. There are some interesting discussions going on in the comments... lots of splitting hairs trying to defend tasers.
http://nateo.blogspot.com/2009/09/interesting-discussion.html
This time from Aurora, CO : > AURORA - The fugitive arrested by police officers on Sept. 3 after a > struggle that included two shots from a taser, has died. > > Aurora...