Reply #38: They aren't non-lethal weapons.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

They are less lethal weapons. You can't test tasers on non healthy human subjects. So you have a conundrum. If someone can come up with an effective viable alternative I'm all for it. I haven't heard of any taser deaths in prisons, they are used quite often there. I wonder what the difference is perhaps an absence of stimulants in the system an overall better health of the prisoner. That would be interesting to look at. I will make this point, if you remove tasers from LEO, you will stop deaths from tasers, you will increase deaths from positional asphyxia, blunt force trauma and gunshot wounds. You will also increase the costs to municipalities when cops are injured fighting with suspects. I fell on some ice at a fire in 2004, it cost the city that employs me over 100 k for that one fall. The taxpayers pay that. My main problem was with the article. The doctor wasn't saying anything other than it can't be ruled out as a cause, can't be proved, but can't be ruled out. The ceo of the other taser company was saying a lot of stuff. It was bad reporting.

David