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I wouldn’t be surprised if tasers actually increase the impulse to “reach for a gun-like solution” and may have actually increased gun use in policing.
by qgin 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if tasers actually increase the impulse to “reach for a gun-like solution” and may have actually increased gun use in policing.
- angelbar 4y agoThat already happened, recently one officer shoot someone because she got the wrong weapon
- runlevel1 4y agoUSA Today found there were at least 16 instances of weapon confusion since 2001.[^1] The first high-profile case happened just 3 months after BART Police were supplied with them in 2009.[^2] [1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/04/13/taser-confusion-errors-like-daunte-wright-shooting-rare-but-avoidable/7210538002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/04/1... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Oscar_Grant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Oscar_Grant