Sentences with phrase «taser in»

So, if Taser use decreases firearm use then maybe more putting a Taser in every police officer's hand if a good thing.

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Smith, who started Taser in 1993 after two of his friends were shot and killed during a road rage incident in Arizona, says body cameras are a perfect next product for his company.

#Breaking Man who died after being Tasered in Telford named locally as former Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson pic.twitter.com/Yu7jAT1Di 0

The officer who thought it acceptable to utilise tasers in the raids the next day.

An unarmed man died yesterday after being struck twice by officers» Tasers in the city of Oneida, Oneida City Police Chief Paul Thompson said.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about NYS Senate Leader Dean Skelos, tasers in police departments across the state, and a stinky situation in Amsterdam.

In the summer of 2016 the American Medical Association passed a resolution to limit the use of guns and Tasers in health care workplaces.

Successfully defended a Vermont police department and its officers in the use of a Taser, including obtaining a favorable judgment on appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which established the legal standard for the use of Tasers in those districts comprising the Second Circuit which includes Vermont

Not exact matches

In its last quarter, Taser brought in $ 15 million for body cameras and Evidence.com, compared with $ 40 million for its namesake conducted electrical weapons, co-founder and CEO Rick Smith tells IncIn its last quarter, Taser brought in $ 15 million for body cameras and Evidence.com, compared with $ 40 million for its namesake conducted electrical weapons, co-founder and CEO Rick Smith tells Incin $ 15 million for body cameras and Evidence.com, compared with $ 40 million for its namesake conducted electrical weapons, co-founder and CEO Rick Smith tells Inc..

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 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.

Precincts have started adopting or increasing use of less - than - lethal force — including pepper spray and Tasers — in an effort to reduce injury and death.

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.

But whether Tasers are truly reducing law enforcement's use of deadly force remains questionable in a nation where 20 percent of arrests entail some use of force.

The link between the electric weapon and serious injury remains unclear; some people may hurt themselves in a fall after being Tasered while other risk factors include hypertensive heart disease or drug use, leading some to conclude that the problem has more to do with officer accountability.

Following a re-training of patrol officers in 2012, cops frequently substituted Tasers for minor, intermediate, and major uses of force.

«We did not provide Tasers to replace firearms and if you ask any expert in the field, they'll tell you that you don't bring a knife to a gun fight.»

The site adds that Tasers have saved nearly 200,000 lives, with over 3.6 million uses in the field worldwide.

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 officers.

Tuttle cited a 2009 U.S. Department of Justice - funded study that concluded that more than 99 percent of 1,201 field uses of Taser weapons resulted in no significant injuries.

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.

According to the company's website, Taser technology is designed to target the body's nervous system and motor movement, making the weapon «an alternative far superior to using firearms in many contexts.»

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.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

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

«The situation at the time the officer fired his Taser was, thus, replete with uncertainty and a reasonable officer in his shoes could have worried he faced imminent danger from a lethal weapon,» Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

According to Reuters, Korean Air stated that its cabin crew were hesitant to deploy its tasers because the equipment is only allowed to be used in situation where the lives of the passengers and crew are in danger or if the safety of the flight is under threat.

The policy is designed to give cabin crew more leeway in the decision to use tasers, Zhang reports.

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

«We have decided to improve our conditions and procedure on using Taser guns to cope with violent acts and disturbances on board in a fast and efficient manner,» Korean Air wrote in a statement to Reuters.

In an Instagram post, Marx's wife, former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes, who was also on the flight, accused Korean Air flight attendants of not knowing how to use the on - board tasers and ropes.

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.

Although the order hasn't come in yet, Taser's CEO Rick Smith said he thinks the agency will make Taser's Axon cameras standard equipment for all officers.

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.

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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.

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Axon Enterprise is the leader in Tasers and body cameras, which are critical tools for law enforcement.

I think in terms of someone who may choose to own a taser as opposed to a hand - gun.

If he had looked over his shoulder, though, he might have seen baseball in a leotard and clown makeup, holding a taser and cocking its head quizzically like a dog.

The year before, just about 90 miles west of the high school where Kaepernick played football, baseball and basketball, an Oakland resident named Oscar Grant was shot in the back in a BART Station by an officer who told investigators he mistakenly believed he was using his taser.

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.

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.