Sentences with phrase «police used tasers»

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

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 police used a taser on Dziekanski within seconds of their arrival, resulting in his death.

«400 - pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer... police use Taser to subdue her»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There were accusations of police brutality today as officers used tasers and batons to try to force residents out of Dale Farm.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has already begun an inquest into the death of Moat, and in particular the use of tasers against the man, as he sat with a gun pressed to his head in the rain.

Tasers were introduced into British policing in 2003, but their use over the years has been surrounded with controversy:

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The Syracuse Police Department will implement new rules regarding the use of Tasers next year.

Among the complaints in Hulett's lawsuit was that the Syracuse Police Department created an environment that emboldened officers to use Tasers.

The team examined over 24,000 cases where police had used force, including almost 5500 incidents involving a Taser.

Using a Taser to subdue a violent suspect is safer than police batons and fists.

5/17/2007 Tests Show Healthy Humans Not Harmed By Taser Using a Taser to control agitated suspects in police custody is standard operating procedure for many law enforcement agencies.

School police officers are armed with pepper spray, Tasers, guns, and canines — and they're using these on students.

The state Court of Appeals will reexamine a lawsuit filed by a man who was severely injured after a Taser was used on him by a Durham Police Officer.

A Miami - Dade police lieutenant used a Taser stun gun to break up a fight between English bulldogs.

Lawyers in Louisville, Ky., are asking a federal judge to set aside a jury verdict exonerating a police officer in a Taser - related death because they say the jury foreman researched the case on the Internet and used what he found to sway other jurors.

Nancy is familiar with accepted police practices and policies and has defended cases of officer - involved shootings, pursuits, and the use of Tasers, batons and pepper spray.

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

In a videotape played in court, a defense expert witness used a Taser on Schlueter's client, George Engman — and also on Schlueter and his twin brother — as evidence of their contention that police used excessive force in arresting Engman.

Jensen says he never received a warning from police, which reportedly violates police procedure for issuing a warning before using a Taser.

Answer: Your call, but sometimes when a motorist is pulled over for a crooked license plate, police will end up using a Taser on them 6 to 10 times.

There have been recommendations in some coroner's inquests to increase the use of Tasers but former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci's 2014 report reviewing the Toronto polices» use of lethal force sounded a note of caution pointing to the «absence of definitive research into the risks of CEWs for populations who are likely to encounter the police in non-criminal contexts.»

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) voice this concern to the Toronto police board saying that CEW use «raises serious human rights concerns because people with mental health disabilities tend to have more frequent contact with police and may be more likely to have a Taser used on them because of behaviours and responses to police instructions that appear «unusual» or «unpredictable.»

But an argument that Taser use can decreases injuries only hold water if there is not an overuse of Tasers once they are put in the hands of every police officer.

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

Don't worry says Toronto police deputy chief Barbara McLean — Tasers will «never to be used as a substitute for de-escalation.»

So, there is good reason to be skeptical of claims, like those made by Toronto police deputy chief Barbara McLean, that Tasers will «never to be used as a substitute for de-escalation.»

The Department of Justice study also found that when Tasers are made widely available to police, the evidence shows that they «rapidly overtake other force alternatives» and in some cases, were being used at rates that exceeded that of officers using «soft empty hand tactics.»

A recent University of Chicago study found that «there is no evidence that Tasers led to a reduction in police use of firearms.»

But it turns out that if more police officers have more Tasers they are more likely to be used more often.

Police must follow strict guidelines on the use of force including batons, tasers, CS gas or pepper spray.

School police officers are armed with pepper spray, Tasers, guns, and canines — and they're using these on students.