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The huge jump is likely due to the number of available Tasers doubling over the year, jumping from 280 to 660, and also due to Taser-use no longer being investigated after each officer’s use of the “defusing tool”.

It was reported that “the agency said it has decided against investigating every time an officer uses a Taser, saying the hundreds of incidents were ‘overwhelming’ its resources. Instead, it will do so only if allegations of misconduct are made, serious injury or death resulted, or a minor or senior citizen was targeted.”

In 2005, CPD temporarily stopped the usage of the “stun guns” when a 54-year-old man died after being shocked with the electrical weapon, and a teen went into cardiac arrest after being stunned.

In 2007, a University of Florida student was famously Tasered and arrested when he caused a disturbance at a town hall forum with Senator John Kerry. The incident, caught on a cell phone camera, went world wide, and struck a cord with people over the proper use of Tasers.


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