Thursday, October 14, 2004

TASER Danger? | CBS News ,October 12, 2004

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/12/earlyshow/main648859.shtml
" When CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andews first started looking into police use of the TASER stun gun a year ago, the weapon had been connected to more than 40 deaths. The company that makes the weapon insisted that none of the deaths was the TASER's fault.

So, says Andrews, 'We began asking, simply, how could that be? What was the real safety record of this weapon?'

'Today, in what clearly is a law-enforcement revolution, tens of thousands of police officers see the TASER as a godsend. "