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A
Taser is an
electroshock weapon sold by
Taser International. It uses
electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing "neuromuscular
incapacitation".[1][2]
Someone struck by a Taser experiences stimulation of his or her
sensory nerves and
motor nerves, resulting in strong involuntary muscle contractions.
Tasers do not rely only on
pain compliance, except when used in
Drive Stun
mode, and are thus preferred by some law enforcement over non-Taser
stun guns and other electronic control weapons.[3][4][5]
Tasers were introduced as
non-lethal weapons to be used by police to subdue fleeing,
belligerent, or potentially dangerous people, who would have otherwise
been subjected to more lethal weapons such as a firearm. A 2009 Police
Executive Research Forum study said that officer injuries drop by 76%
when a Taser is used.[6]
However, while Taser CEO Rick Smith has stated that police surveys show
that the device has saved 75,000 lives,[6]
there has been some
controversy where a Taser was implicated in instances of serious
injury or death.[7][8]
History
Jack Cover, a
NASA
researcher, began developing the Taser in 1969.[9]
By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named after his
childhood hero
Tom
Swift ("Thomas
A. Swift's electric rifle").[10]
The Taser Public Defender used
gunpowder as its propellant, which led the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to classify it as a
firearm
in 1976.[11][12]
Taser International CEO Patrick Smith has testified in a
Taser-related lawsuit that the catalyst for the development of the
device was the "shooting death of two of his high school acquaintances"
by a "guy with a legally licensed gun who lost his temper".[13]
In 1993, Rick Smith and his brother Thomas began to investigate what
they called "safer use of force option[s] for citizens and law
enforcement". At their
Scottsdale, Arizona, facilities, the brothers worked with the
"...original Taser inventor, Jack Cover" to develop a "non-firearm Taser
electronic control device".[14]
The 1994 Air Taser Model 34000 had an "anti-felon identification (AFID)
system" to prevent the likelihood that the device would be used by
criminals; upon use, it released many small pieces of paper containing
the serial number of the Taser device. The U.S. firearms regulator, the
ATF, stated that the Air Taser was not a firearm. In 1999, Taser
International developed an "ergonomically handgun-shaped device called
the Advanced Taser M-series systems" which used a "patented
neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI) technology". In May 2003, Taser
International released a new weapon called the Taser X26, which used
"shaped pulse technology". On July 27, 2009 Taser International released
a new type of Taser called the X3 which can fire three shots before it
must be reloaded. It holds three new type cartridges, which are much
thinner than the previous model.
Function
The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected
to the main unit by conductive wire as they are propelled by small
compressed
nitrogen charges.[15][16]
The air cartridge contains a pair of electrodes and propellant for a
single shot and is replaced after each use. There are a number of
cartridges designated by range, with the maximum at 35 feet (10.6 m).[16]
Cartridges available to non-law enforcement consumers are limited to 15
feet (4.5 m).[17]
The electrodes are pointed to penetrate clothing and barbed to prevent
removal once in place. Earlier Taser models had difficulty in
penetrating thick clothing, but newer versions (X26, C2) use a "shaped
pulse" that increases effectiveness in the presence of barriers.[18]
Tasers primarily function by creating neuromuscular incapacitation;
the devices interrupt the ability of the brain to control the muscles in
the body.[citation
needed] This creates an immediate and unavoidable
incapacitation that is not based on pain and cannot be overcome.[citation
needed] Once the electricity stops flowing the
subject immediately regains control of his or her body.
Tasers also provide a safety benefit to police officers as they have
a greater deployment range than
batons,
pepper spray or empty hand techniques. This allows police to
maintain a safe distance. A study of use-of-force incidents by the
Calgary Police Service conducted by the
Canadian Police Research Centre found that the use of Tasers
resulted in fewer injuries than the use of batons or empty hand
techniques. Only pepper spray was found to be a safer intervention
option.[19]
-
The M-26 Taser, the United States military version of a
commercial Taser
-
Police issue X26 Taser with cartridge installed
Drive Stun
Some Taser models, particularly those used by
police
departments, also have a "Drive Stun" capability, where the Taser is
held against the target without firing the projectiles, and is intended
to cause pain without incapacitating the target. "Drive Stun" is "the
process of using the EMD weapon [Taser] as a
pain compliance technique. This is done by activating the EMD and
placing it against an individual’s body. This can be done without an air
cartridge in place or after an air cartridge has been deployed."[20]
Guidelines released in 2011 in the U.S. recommend that use of Drive
Stun as a pain compliance technique be avoided.[21]
The guidelines were issued by a joint committee of the Police Executive
Research Forum and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services. The guidelines state "Using the ECW to
achieve pain compliance may have limited effectiveness and, when used
repeatedly, may even exacerbate the situation by inducing rage in the
subject."
A study of U.S. police and sheriff departments found that 29.6% of
the jurisdictions allowed the use of Drive Stun for gaining compliance
in a passive resistance arrest scenario, with no physical contact
between the officer and the subject. For a scenario which also includes
non-violent physical contact, this number is 65.2%.[22]
A
Las Vegas police document says "The Drive Stun causes significant
localized pain in the area touched by the Taser, but does not have a
significant effect on the central nervous system. The Drive Stun does
not incapacitate a subject but may assist in taking a subject into
custody."[23]
"Drive Stun" was used in the
UCLA Taser incident and the
University of Florida Taser incident (which popularized the
widespread use of the phrase "Don't Tase me, bro!"). It is also known as
"dry Tasing", "contact Tasing", or "drive Tasing".[citation
needed]
Amnesty International has expressed particular concern about Drive
Stun, noting that "… the potential to use Tasers in drive-stun
mode—where they are used as 'pain compliance' tools when individuals are
already effectively in custody—and the capacity to inflict multiple and
prolonged shocks, renders the weapons inherently open to abuse."[24]
Models
There are two main police models, the M26 and X26[citation
needed]. Both come with accessories including a
laser sight and optional mounted digital video camera that can record in
low-light situations.[citation
needed] Taser International sells a civilian model
called the C2.[citation
needed] On 27 July 2009, Taser introduced the X3,
capable of firing three times without reload.[25][26]
Accessories
The Taser Cam is a specialized device designed for the Taser X26 to
record audio and video when the Taser's safety is disengaged. The cam is
integrated into a battery pack and does not interfere with the Taser's
existing function.[27]
Users
Taser use in Phoenix increased from 71 incidents in 2002 to 164
incidents in 2003.[citation
needed] In
Houston,
however, police shootings did not decline after the deployment of
thousands of Tasers.[28]
According to the analysis of the first 900 police Taser incidents by
the
Houston Chronicle, no crime was being committed and no person
was charged in 350 of those cases.[28]
In addition, it has been reported that the
Houston Police Department has "shot, wounded, and killed as many
people as before the widespread use of the stun guns" and has used
Tasers in situations that would not warrant lethal or violent force,
such as "traffic stops, disturbance and nuisance complaints, and reports
of suspicious people."
In
Portland, Oregon, meanwhile, police found that 25% to 30% of the
situations in which a Taser was employed met the criteria for the use of
deadly force.[29]
The
American Civil Liberties Union alleges that, since 1999, at least
148 people have died in the United States and Canada after being shocked
with Tasers by police officers.[30]
A 2009 development has included marketing Tasers to the general
public. A line of pink Tasers are specifically being marketed for women.
The Taser website states "Who says safety can't be stylish?" in
reference to its "latest designer TASER C2 colors" and patterns, which
include leopard print patterns and a range of colors.[31]
Legality
Argentina
In 2010, one court ruled against the use of five imported Tasers by
the Buenos Aires
local police, to comply with a claim from the "Human Rights
Observatorium", that states that tasers are considered an instrument of
torture by NGOs and the Committee against Torture of the UN.[32]
Australia
Possession, ownership and use of a stun gun (including Tasers) by
civilians is considerably restricted, if not illegal in all States and
Territories. The importation into Australia is restricted with permits
being required.
Stun gun use in Australian law enforcement is as follows:
Brazil
Use of the Taser is legal for the police. Its use is widespread
mainly in the
Guardas Municipais (Municipal Guards), who receive professional
training in the use of electro-conductive pistols. Tasers are also used
by
military police and specialized forces. There are laws allowing
their use by private security companies, but such use is unusual because
of the expense of maintaining a Taser compared with an ordinary gun.
Canada
According to previous interpretation of the Firearms Act,
Tasers were considered to be "prohibited weapons" and could be used only
by members of law-enforcement agencies after they were imported into the
country under a special permit. The possession of restricted weapons
must be licensed by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Canadian Firearms Program unless exempted by law.[35]
A 2008 review of the Firearms Act found that the act classifies
"the Taser Public Defender and any variant or modified version of it" as
"prohibited firearms". However, Canadian police forces typically treat
Tasers as "prohibited weapons", inconsistent with the restrictions on
firearms.[36]
The direct source for this information comes from an independent
report produced by Compliance Strategy Group[37]
for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The report is called An
Independent Review of the Adoption and Use of Conducted Energy Weapons
by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[38]
In the report that is available through access to information, the
authors argued that the CEW was, for several years after its adoption by
the RCMP, erroneously characterized as a prohibited "weapon" under the
Criminal Code, as opposed to a prohibited "firearm". This
misunderstanding was subsequently incorporated into the RCMP's
operational policies and procedures as well as those of other police
services in Canada. While the most recent RCMP operational manual,
completed in 2007, correctly refers to the CEW as a prohibited firearm,
a number of consequences of this error in classification remain to be
dealt with by both the RCMP and other Canadian police services.[39]
Consequently, it could be argued the police in Canada may not have had
the proper authority under their provincial policing Acts and Regulation
to use the CEW in the first place. The point of unauthorized use by the
police was also raised by Dirk Ryneveld, British Columbia's Police
Complaint Commissioner at the Braidwood inquiry on June 25, 2008. Taser
safety and issues have been extensively rehearsed and investigated after
the
Robert Dziekański Taser incident at
Vancouver International Airport.[40]
France
Tasers are used by the
French National Police and
Gendarmerie. In September 2008, they were made available to
local police by a government decree,[41]
but in September 2009, the
Council of State reversed the decision judging that the
specificities of the weapon required a stricter regulation and control.[42]
However, since the murder of a policewoman on duty, the Taser is in use
again by local police forces in 2010.
Germany
The purchase, possession, and carrying of Tasers in Germany is
prohibited since April 1, 2008 (gun control law: Anlage 2, Abschnitt
1, Nr. 1.3.6. WaffG). However Tasers are in use in police special
units,
Spezialeinsatzkommando, (SEK) and others, in 13 out of 16 German
states.
Greece
The
Greek police uses Tasers. Greek Police special forces used a Taser
to end the hijacking of a Turkish Airlines A310 by a Turkish citizen at
Athens International Airport in March 2003.[43]
Hong Kong
Under Hong Kong laws, Chapter 238 Firearms and Ammunition
Ordinance, "any portable device which is designed or adapted to stun
or disable a person by means of an electric shock applied either with or
without direct contact with that person" is considered as 'arms' and
therefore, the importation, possession and exportation of Tasers require
a license by the
Hong Kong Police Force which would otherwise be illegal and carries
penalties up to a fine of $100,000 and 14 years in jail.
Iceland
Use of Tasers is not prohibited in
Iceland.
Ireland
Use of Tasers in Ireland by private individuals is prohibited, except
for the
Garda Emergency Response Unit and the
Garda Regional Support Unit, specialist units of Ireland's police
force. The X26 model is used.
Israel
Israeli police approved using Tasers. As of 16 February 2009, the
first Tasers became available to police units.[44]
Israeli Defense Force first usage
Tasers were first used by the Israeli Defense Force by the former
special counter-terror unit
Force 100 in 2004. The unit was disbanded in 2006.[45]
Tasers are expected to re-enter operational use by the Israeli Defense
Forces in the near future.[46]
As of August 18th 2013, the use of Tasers by Israeli police was
temporarily suspended by Police Chief Yokhanan Danino; after such
instruments were used repeatedly and excessively by police; against a
person who allegedly was unarmed and who was not resisting a warranted
arrest.
Kenya
Tasers are not recognized under Kenyan law hence they are illegal.
Malaysia
Royal Malaysian Police are set to become the second in Southeast Asia
police force after
Singapore Police Force to use the non-lethal Taser X26 stun guns.
The force had taken delivery of 210 units of the stun guns, known as the
X26 electronic control device, which cost RM2.1 million, last year they
have yet to be distributed to personnel on the ground. Taser would be
included under the Firearms Act 1960. The Taser X26 set bought by
Malaysian police comes with a holster and uses a non-rechargeable
lithium battery able to deliver 195 cartridge shots. Policemen going on
rounds will be issued four cartridges. The force began toying with the
idea of using Tasers in 2003 when they purchased 80 units of the M26,
the X26's bulkier predecessor. This was not made public as it was part
of a testing exercise. The Tasers were issued to policemen in Petaling
Jaya, Dang Wangi in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru.[47]
New Zealand
A large-scale and generally well-received trial by the
New Zealand Police saw Tasers presented almost 800 times and fired
over 100 times, but firing was "ineffective" about a third of the time.[48]
The tasers had been "unintentionally discharged" more often than they
had been used in the line of duty.
In October 2012, police said the Taser had been "very successful in
de-escalating dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations".
Since their introduction, Tasers had been presented 1320 times but only
fired 212 times, resulting in 13 injuries.[49]
Sweden
Tasers and other electronic control devices are considered
firearms
in Sweden
and are banned for civilian use. The Swedish police had purchased a
limited quantity of Tasers, and was about to initiate field trials when
these were cancelled in 2005 after an ethics commission found that the
need for (and risks of) such devices was not firmly established.[50]
The purchased Tasers were then donated to Finland, where field trials
were initiated.
United Kingdom
Tasers are considered to be "prohibited weapons" under the
Firearms Act 1968 and possession is an offence.[51]
The maximum sentence for possession is ten years in prison and an
unlimited fine.[52]
Taser guns are now used by some British police as a "less lethal"
weapon. It was also announced in July 2007, that the deployment of Taser
by specially trained police units who are not firearms officers, but who
are facing similar threats of violence, would be trialled in ten police
forces.[53]
The 12-month trial commenced on 1 September 2007, and took place in the
following forces:
Avon & Somerset,
Devon & Cornwall,
Gwent,
Lincolnshire,
Merseyside,
Metropolitan Police,
Northamptonshire,
Northumbria,
North Wales and
West Yorkshire.[53]
Following the completion of the trial, the
Home Secretary agreed on 24 November 2008 to allow
chief police officers of all forces in England and Wales, from 1
December 2008, to extend Taser use to specially-trained units in
accordance with current
Association of Chief Police Officers policy and guidance, which
states that Taser can be used only where officers would be facing
violence or threats of violence of such severity that they would need to
use force to protect the public, themselves, and/or the subject(s).[54]
Also, in Scotland
Strathclyde Police agreed in February 2010 to arm 30 specially
trained police officers using the Taser X26. The pilot would last three
months and would be deployed in Glasgow City Centre and Rutherglen.[55]
A fund for up to 10,000 additional Tasers is being made available for
individual chief police officers to bid for Tasers based on their own
operational requirements.[54]
United States
Taser devices are not considered firearms by the United States
government.[56]
They can be legally carried (concealed or open) without a permit in 43
states. They are prohibited for citizen use in the District of Columbia,
Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island,[57]
as well as certain cities and counties. Their use in Connecticut,
Illinois, and Wisconsin[58]
is legal with restrictions.[59]
Court cases in recent years have addressed the legality of taser use
by police officers. In
Bryan v. MacPherson, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a
Taser had been used in a way that constituted excessive force and hence
a violation of the
Fourth Amendment. In the later case Mattos v. Agarano,[60]
the same Court of Appeals found that in two situations involving Taser
use, one in Drive Stun and one in dart mode, officers had used excessive
force. According to an article in Police Chief magazine, this
decision implies guidelines for the use of Tasers and other Electronic
Control Devices in gaining compliance (in a setting where safety is not
an issue), including that the officer must give warning before each
application, and that the suspect must be capable of compliance, with
enough time to consider a warning, and to recover from the extreme pain
of any prior application of the Taser; nor should Tasers be used on
children, the elderly, and women who are visibly pregnant or inform the
officer of their pregnancy.[61]
In 1991, a Taser supplied by
Tasertron to the
Los Angeles Police Department failed to subdue
Rodney King—even after he was shot twice with the device—causing
officers to believe he was on
PCP.[62]
Its lack of effectiveness was blamed on a possible battery problem.[63]
Safety concerns
Ventricular
fibrillation
Excited delirium
Some of the deaths associated with tasers are given a diagnosis of
excited delirium, a term for a phenomenon that manifests as a
combination of
delirium,
psychomotor agitation,
anxiety,
hallucinations, speech disturbances,
disorientation, violent and bizarre behavior, insensitivity to
pain,
elevated
body temperature, and increased strength.[64][65]
Excited delirium is associated with sudden death (usually via
cardiac or
respiratory arrest) particularly following the use of physical
control measures, including police restraint and tasers.[64][65]
Excited delirium most commonly arises in male subjects with a history of
serious
mental illness and/or acute or chronic
drug abuse, particularly
stimulant drugs such as
cocaine.[64][66]
Alcohol withdrawal or
head trauma may also contribute to the condition.[67]
The diagnosis of excited delirium has been controversial.[68][69]
Excited delirium has been listed as a
cause of death by some
medical examiners for several years,[70][71]
mainly as a
diagnosis of exclusion established on
autopsy.[64]
Additionally, academic discussion of excited delirium has been largely
confined to
forensic science literature, providing limited documentation about
patients that survive the condition.[64]
These circumstances have lead some
civil liberties groups to question the
cause of death diagnosis, claiming that excited delirium has been
used to "excuse and exonerate"
law enforcement authorities following the death of detained
subjects, a possible "conspiracy or cover-up for brutality" when
restraining agitated individuals.[64][68][69]
Also contributing to the controversy is the
role of taser use in excited delirium deaths.[66][72]
Excited delirium is not found in the current version of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, however
the term "excited delirium" has been accepted by the
National Association of Medical Examiners and the
American College of Emergency Physicians, who argued in a 2009
white paper that "excited delirium" may be described by several
codes within the
ICD-9.[64]
The American College of Emergency Physicians "rejects the theory" that
excited delirium is an "invented syndrome" used to excuse or cover-up
the use of excessive force by law enforcement.[73]
Use in
schools and on children
Taser International asserts that the taser is safe for use on anyone
weighing 60 pounds (27 kg) or more.[citation
needed] Police officers that patrol schools,
including
grade schools, in several U.S. states (including
Kansas,
Minnesota,
Kentucky,
Virginia and
Florida)
have been carrying tasers since the early 2000s. In 2004, the parents of
a 6-year-old boy in
Miami
sued the police department for firing a taser at their child. The police
said the boy was threatening to injure his own leg with a shard of
glass, and claimed that using the device was the only option to stop the
boy from injuring himself. Nevertheless, the boy's mother told
CNN that the
three officers involved might have found it easier to reason with her
child. Two weeks later, a 12-year-old girl skipping school was tasered
in
Miami-Dade.[74]
In March 2008, an 11-year old girl was shocked by a Taser.[75]
In March 2009, a 15-year-old boy died in
Michigan after being tasered.[76]
Taser supporters suggest that the use in schools consists of merely
switching on the device followed with threatening to use it, which can
be effective in frightening violent or uncooperative students. This is
the method, only if verbal reprimands have not succeeded. Critics
counter that tasers may interact with pre-existing medical complications
such as medications, and may even contribute to someone's death as a
result. Critics also suggest that using a taser on a minor, particularly
a young child, is effectively
cruel and abusive punishment, or unnecessary.[77][78][79][80]
Torture
A report from a meeting of the
United Nations Committee Against Torture states that "The Committee
was worried that the use of Taser X26 weapons, provoking extreme pain,
constituted a form of
torture,
and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several
reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical
use."[81][82]
Amnesty International has also raised extensive concerns about the use
of other electro-shock devices by American police and in American
prisons, as they can be (and according to
Amnesty International, sometimes are) used to inflict cruel pain on
individuals. For example, Eric Hammock of Texas died in April 2005 after
receiving more than 20 Taser shocks by Fort Worth police officers.[83][dead
link] Maurice Cunningham of South Carolina, while
an inmate at the Lancaster County Detention Center,[84][85]
was subjected to continuous shock for 2 minutes 49 seconds, which a
medical examiner said caused cardiac arrhythmia and his subsequent
death. He was 29 years old and had no alcohol or drugs in his system.[86]
In response to the claims that the pain inflicted by the use of the
Taser could potentially constitute torture, Tom Smith, the Chairman of
the Taser Board, has stated that the U.N. is "out of touch" with the
needs of modern policing.
Pepper spray goes on for hours and hours, hitting someone with a
baton breaks limbs, shooting someone with a firearm causes permanent
damage, even punching and kicking—the intent of those tools is to
inflict pain, ... with the Taser, the intent is not to inflict pain;
it's to end the confrontation. When it's over, it's over.[87]
- —Taser Chairman Tom Smith
The
American Civil Liberties Union has also raised concerns about their
use, as has the British human rights organization Resist Cardiac Arrest.
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