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> The next thing you learn is that we really need to do something about tasers, because if there's a top 3 set of circumstances for death involving police offic
by kevinmchugh 11y ago
> The next thing you learn is that we really need to do something about tasers, because if there's a top 3 set of circumstances for death involving police officers, "death after tasing" is at least #3.
Since you've looked at the data, could this be survivorship bias? Is there data on how often tasers are used where firearms would've been, in the absence of tasers? It certainly could be that tasers reduce the number of people killed by police, but it sounds hard to measure that.
- tptacek 11y agoFor the past few months of the data, the overwhelming majority of people killed by police tasings appear to have been unarmed.