Sunday, December 05, 2004

SAN JOSE / Study finds taser used on more white arrestees / [USA] SFGate, 4 Dec 2004

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/04/BAGI0A6AJO1.DTL
"A six-month San Jose police study released Friday shows white arrestees are more likely to be zapped with Taser stun guns and also raises concerns by civil rights advocates that Hispanics and blacks were being arrested and 'Tased' disproportionate to their representation in the population.
However, several civil libertarians praised San Jose police Chief Robert Davis for publicly tracking the race and age of suspects who were subdued with Tasers after the department became one of the first major departments in the country to arm all 800 patrol officers with stun guns. "