TASERS are increasingly used to subdue suspects or as personal weapons. TASERS, also called "electrical control devices," have been used by law enforcement since the mid-1970s, with the intention to ...

Officially, the term “taser” refers to a particular brand of projectile-firing electric stun gun. However, the word is also colloquially used to refer to just about any device intended for delivering ...

Law enforcement agencies across the country started using Tasers and similar weapons about three decades ago. The still-evolving technology quickly reduced injuries among officers and subjects, ...

An investigation found excessive Taser use in Mississippi to be widespread after reporters examined thousands of activations from department logs, many of which had never before been reviewed. By ...

Before police shot at Derell Mickles and two bystanders at the Sutter Ave. L train station in Brownsville on Sunday, officers first tried to use Tasers. The NYPD said those attempts were “ineffective.

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah Highway Patrol trooper who used his Taser to stop a fleeing man, resulting in the man falling 21 feet off the freeway to his death, will not be criminally charged. Salt Lake ...

ROBBINS, Ill. (WLS) -- Body camera video obtained by the ABC7 I-Team shows a Taser being used on the face of a Chicago man by a Robbins police officer. The man is now suing the village of Robbins and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "Taser" and "laser" are both types of energy weapons, while also both acronyms, so it wouldn't be ridiculous for you to assume that most of ...

A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand. By Nate Rosenfield Brian Howey and Sarah ...