The Los Angeles Police Department will test a new generation of Tasers that have greater range, which LAPD officials say could help officers more easily control uncooperative people and prevent the ...

A study conducted by emergency medicine physicians at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center showed no lasting effects of the Taser on healthy test subjects. Using a Taser to control ...

There has been some controversy regarding the use of the Taser in controlling subjects in police custody, including reports of deaths. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic ...

L.A. voters went to the polls in 2011 to crack down on what some referred to as “pay to play” practices at City Hall, passing a measure to limit the political influence of companies that seek ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday they would test 24 Tasers bought before 2006 after a media investigation suggested older models of the stun gun could fire excessively ...

In context: While Tasers are supposed to fall under the "less-than-lethal" category, 1,081 people have been killed by them in the US since they became widely used by police forces in the earlier 2000s ...

In Minnesota, the manslaughter trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter continued Monday, with a medical examiner testifying the wound Daunte Wright received from Potter’s handgun was ...

Ex-cop Kim Potter is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Potter has said that she intended to grab her Taser instead of her gun when she fatally shot Wright during a ...

Controversial electroshock weaponeer Taser International is quickly building up it arsenal. But the results from the safety and field tests of that new gear - well, that's coming along much more ...

More often than not, using a taser on someone usually ends with cheese and wine -the occasional phone number exchange- and it’s because of this not-lethal-enough stigma that the fine folks over at ...

Scottsdale-based Taser International defended the shock-testing of pigs with its 50,000-volt stun guns after criticism from the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. The animal-rights group accused ...