Sentences with phrase «police taser»

Through the years I have come across all kinds of unexpected reasons why people have found themselves on the wrong end of a police Taser (here and here, for example).

But on 19 July the Arizona - based firm lost a major decision when a jury in a US district court ruled that Darryl Turner, a 17 - year - old shop assistant in Charlotte, North Carolina, had been killed by a police taser after receiving an extended 37 - second shock.

Not exact matches

Taser will be providing 1,556 of its Axon Body 2 cameras, two for each member of the force, to the Louisiana State Police this quarter.

One of Taser's newer product lines is police body cameras and Evidence.com, which is a cloud - based software product that stores body camera feeds and other digital evidence for police departments.

Taser shares have gained 44 percent year to date, but have fallen 12 percent this quarter after the company lost the New York Police Department body cam contract to Vievu Safariland at a price that Taser described as «near or below cost.»

When Taser first started selling stun guns to police, Smith decided to implement tracking and activity - logging technology to ensure departments could have a record of every time a cop used the Taser.

Last week, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in San Diego, Taser International, which makes stun guns, body cameras, and digital evidence storage software for law enforcement agencies around the world, met with its customers, police and other law enforcement personnel, to discuss current products and ideas for future proPolice conference in San Diego, Taser International, which makes stun guns, body cameras, and digital evidence storage software for law enforcement agencies around the world, met with its customers, police and other law enforcement personnel, to discuss current products and ideas for future propolice and other law enforcement personnel, to discuss current products and ideas for future products.

VieVu, founded in 2007 by ex-Seattle police officer and former Taser employee Steve Ward, has about 4,000 law enforcement agencies in 17 countries using its body cameras and digital video storage.

Smith says his customers have been asking about how drones can be used in police work, but Taser does not have a drone product in the pipeline.

That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»

Research released this week finds that the Chicago Police Department's adoption of Tasers resulted in a reduction in officer injury but no effect on firearm use by law enforcement.

The only exception to this rule were guns: police officers did not make meaningful switches from guns to Tasers.

There is «no evidence» that the adoption of Tasers reduces police use of firearms, according to a study released this week from the University of Chicago.

The company came under fire in 2015 after a Washington Post investigation found that, on average, one person per week died in incidents in which police used Tasers that year.

The team studied data from the Chicago Police Department starting in 2010, when the city's police force began issuing Tasers to patrol offPolice Department starting in 2010, when the city's police force began issuing Tasers to patrol offpolice force began issuing Tasers to patrol officers.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing their use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death while still giving police options when facing would - be assailants.

Many cities have recently decided to give Tasers a second chance after police use of force led to public unrest in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri.

Axon Enterprise — the maker of Taser — changed its name in 2017, adopting the title of its police body camera segment as a part of its shift into software services.

In 2013 he argued that a police officer had not used excessive force when he shot a fleeing suspect in the head with a Taser.

We now refer to magazine cover photos as «photoshopped»; we «windex» our windows to remove streaks; we «xerox» exhibits; we «rollerblade» down the street on our inline skates; we «wite - out» the mistakes in a term paper; and we read a news article about the police «tasering» a resistant suspect.

Here we have a police officer warding people off with a taser gun during a Black Friday Walmart sale in 2011:

Taser has also added the business of a number of other big city police departments — including Pittsburgh and San Francisco — over the past year.

Taser's CEO Smith says there's a pressing need for better technology for police officers to increase transparency.

Smith said there is a particular market for Taser's cameras and cloud service because it all comes in one user - friendly package, meaning police departments don't have to go through the bureaucratic procurement process for cameras, storage or servers — instead, Taser takes care of it all.

Taser, of course, is best known for the tiny stun guns carried by police and sometimes civilians, made particularly famous a few years ago when a student at the University of Florida screamed «Don't tase me, bro!»

Of course, Taser is not the only company looking to capitalize on the increased focus on police technology.

In addition to those stun guns, Taser (TASR) sells Axon body - mounted cameras to police departments, and they're used to record officer interactions with civilians.

Coral Gables police officers won't face charges for death of Aviel Gutierrez, who died in December 2016 after he was shot with a Taser stun gun during a bizarre confrontation.

Surveillance footage captured the scrum that led Coral Gables police to use a Taser stun gun on Aviel Gutierrez in December 2016.

Police also claim that they thought Harris could have been armed and on PCP (which is unconfirmed), saying that the shooting was «inadvertent» (they say Bates meant to fire his Taser) and that he was «absolutely a threat when going down.»

#Eagles CB Daryl Worley was arrested at 6 am this morning when he became combative with police and Philadelphia police administrated a taser on him, sources tell @MikeGarafolo and me.

On July 19, 2011, a federal jury awarded $ 10 million to the parents and estate of Darryl Turner, an African - American teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser wielded by a Charlotte police officer.

In response, the police broke down his front door, tasered him, and then shot him, first with a bean bag round, then with live ammunition.

A furious Cullen then leaps from his car, takes his helmet off, walks around to the window of his rival and just starts beating down on the guy, only stopping when a police officer jogs over and tasers him as an electrified crowd cheer along.

Former Aston Villa striker Dalian Atkinson was pronounced dead last night after the 48 - year - old was tasered by police in Telford, not an hour from Villa Park.

New warnings have been sounded over the supposedly non-lethal Tasers being introduced to UK police forces after hundreds of deaths were reported in the US.

A Civilian Complaint Review Board report on the use of Tasers by the New York Police Department was scrubbed of language highlighting a central finding in an earlier - circulated draft report: that in most Taser encounters reviewed, officers used the stun guns on unarmed people.

Police officers dramatically increased their usage of Tasers during the second quarter of the weapons» 12 - month trial, government figures show.

Ivy, whose family described him as a paranoid schizophrenic with heart problems, was chased and fatally Tasered by police in April as he was walking to a convenience store.

There are discussions in some federal states to equip police officers with electric shock weapons (aka «tasers») to «close the gap between baton, pepper spray and handgun».

The police had to use Taser guns to scare away the crowd, some of whom had picked stones and clubs ready to lynch the lady.

In the US, where Taser use is far higher and the police are generally more trigger - happy than our own, more than 460 people have been killed by the weapons.

Devon and Cornwall police were criticised for using a Tasers against two boys aged 14 and 15 in a school.

So it came as no surprise when Police Federation boss Steve White popped up on the airwaves this weekend saying terrorism means all front - line police officers should get a Police Federation boss Steve White popped up on the airwaves this weekend saying terrorism means all front - line police officers should get a police officers should get a Taser.

The IPCC found many forces took the police officer's description of the Taser incident at face value «without any further probing».

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which supports the use of Tasers, has warned that police are using the weapon on people who are already in cuPolice Complaints Commission (IPCC), which supports the use of Tasers, has warned that police are using the weapon on people who are already in cupolice are using the weapon on people who are already in custody.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it would closely monitor the use of Tasers during the trial, having already received several complaints about their use.

Northumbria police officers were responsible for 122 incidents while the Metropolitan police used Tasers 90 times.

A pilot project which gave specialist police officers Taser guns will be spread out across the country.

Amnesty International has accused UK police forces of behaving like their American counterparts, following Home Office figures showing the use of Taser guns to have sky - rocketed.