Over the past several years, tens of thousands of officers have been tased, yet not a single one has died. How can they be so deadly to the public if they are harmless to the officers?
2007-12-30 16:07:25 · 30 answers · asked by Me 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
When the taser is implicated in a death, it always involves some other factor. This is almost always drugs, but can also be a pre-existing medical condition.
The taser effects the muscle under the skin only, and the amperage is only .021 amps, 30 times less than the minimum lethal dosage of .7 amps.
Addtional: After reading several posts... there is no setting on the taser, everyone gets the same volatage. Even the officers.
2007-12-30 16:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by trooper3316 7 · 17⤊ 3⤋
Tasers are FAR safer than guns, but not even guns kill everyone that is shot, do they? Any weapon can be deadly, and anything can be used as a weapon, but there aren't all that many that are (for use by an individual, on an individual) deadly all the time. It all depends on many different circumstances. For example, there are many people who die if shock, even when the injury incurred may not have been immediately life threatening. Tasers COULD be dangerous to someone with a heart problem, as was already mentioned and, as that person also mentioned, a person with a heart problem shouldn't be running from/fighting with the cops. However, there could be instances in which the person didn't know they had a heart problem, or did know and just gave over to instinct and adrenaline which caused them to run or fight.
That said: I fully support the use of Tasers by law enforcement. The cops have a dangerous job and they need some means of protection. The threat of bodily harm is usually going to be enough to control a suspect, but not always. If they have to use the Taser, it is better than using a gun and killing many more than the Taser ever will.
2007-12-30 16:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Geaux Ghoti 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Tasers are not the problem. I have been Tasered six or seven times now and I am alive and well.
The problem is that the people that have died have died from reasons outside of the Taser itself. They have had bad drug habits, health problems, etc. Those are the underlying circumstances behind the death.
Taser has been sued 54 times (last time I checked) for wrongful death. The company has defeated every lawsuit.
And to the people that claim we get a weaker voltage-Tasers have two settings. Off and on. There is no in between, you're either getting 50,000 volts or you're not. The "ride" last for 5 seconds not minutes.
2007-12-30 17:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by El Scott 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Tasers usually trigger something else that causes the death. And, I'm sure if tens of thousands of cops have been tased, at least one has bitten the dust.
2007-12-30 16:11:15 · answer #4 · answered by BClovis 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They're deadly only rarely, and even then only in cases when the victim is ill or has an unusual medical condition. Cops are for the most part pretty healthy (at least physically).
2007-12-30 16:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by Jonny Flash 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I didn't know tasers were dangerous. I thought they only shock people and all they are meant to do is stun people's nerves for a couple of minutes so the cops came get a hold of someone without struggle. And I guess they go off on accident when they are in a cop's pocket or something.
Hoped that helpd. :)
2007-12-30 16:13:24 · answer #6 · answered by krh1992 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Police are only hit with the initial low blast. You are crazy to believe that police are hit with the same amount of voltage as any perp. What about when they continue to send voltage through the perp's body repeatedly. Anyone that watches the t.v. show C.O.P.S., witnessed tasing incidents live or personally, have heard those famous words "quit resisting". Come on folks, how could it be judged as resisting when a person is having several volts of electricity passed through their body and of course the person getting tased isn't able to remain calm and still. That is impossible and its ashamed that the police have the right to tase people again and again till death only because they can.
2007-12-30 16:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋
Serious damage can be caused when stupid people taser themselves for extended periods of time. When testing the tasers on themselves, cops only do the recommended time and voltage. We all know there are those out there channeling Steve-O who crank those babies up and don't pull them away until after the person has passed out!
2007-12-30 16:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by OSU_Pokes89 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
And top that off with many thousands more that have been tased for fighting and resisting an Officer and haven't died either.
As many of the Police haters have shown, they are incapable of accepting factual information. With them, there's ALWAYS something sinister that the Police do. Sorry to say, but all Officers are Tased with the same weapon and same methods that are used when it is deployed on a combative suspect.
2007-12-31 05:02:35 · answer #9 · answered by mebe1042 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Were not blown out on coke and meth with unhealthy bodies.
2007-12-30 19:13:14 · answer #10 · answered by California Street Cop 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋