Taser Guns 'raised Deaths In Custody'

摘要

Sudden deaths among people being held by police in California increased sixfold in the first year after police departments there began using Taser stun guns, according to a survey by the University of California, San Francisco. The finding appears to back Amnesty International's view that Tasers are a threat to lifernTaser International, which makes the weapons, says that the study is flawed because it relies on "suspect data sampling" from a limited number of police departments.rnThe researchers compared death rates in custody in the five years before and after the Taserrnwas introduced.