Four people were shot and injured by police after Tasers used against a suspected fare evader in Brooklyn were “ineffective” in subduing the man. The incident has raised questions about the use of ...

The availability of Tasers to Houston police officers may have caused an escalation, rather than a reduction, in the amount of force officers use on suspects, according to the city official overseeing ...

Waco police cases involving Taser use against people described as “defensive” resisters — a category that includes those who run or pull away from officers — account for 56 percent of the non-lethal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of Taser stun weapons by U.S. police forces inflicts very few serious injuries, researchers said on Monday, but a leading human rights group was unswayed, pressing its ...

University of South Wales provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently urged the police to take “all necessary action” in response to unrest across cities ...

Less than two weeks after the police-involved shooting at the Sutter Avenue subway station in Brownsville, questions remain about the NYPD's use of Tasers. On the day of the shooting, police opened ...

The Houston Police Department will create a committee to review officers' use of Tasers in recent months, Chief Harold Hurtt announced Monday after meeting with community activists concerned about the ...

Virginia’s Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office now prohibits the use of Tasers at its jail after a mentally ill inmate died after being shocked four times while being prepared for medical transport, WUSA ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Corporal Matthew Stice pointed his Taser at Martini Smith’s bare chest. Smith was 20 years old, pregnant and stripped nearly naked, standing in a cell in the Franklin County ...

The number of times Scots cops have fired tasers at members of the public has soared by 70 per cent in the last four years - sparking fears over their use. But frontline cops last night claimed the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of Taser stun weapons by U.S. police forces inflicts very few serious injuries, researchers said on Monday, but a leading human rights group was unswayed, pressing its ...