A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand. By Nate Rosenfield Brian Howey and ...

Police officers say a few weeks after Olatomiwa “Chevy” Ajayi turned 22 he and two of his friends aged 21 and 22 committed a ...

UNION, S.C. (WSPA) – The Union County Sheriff’s Office issued new stun guns this month, which they said will save lives. The stun gun, made by military and law enforcement gear manufacturer ...

Firearm registrations are up 280.5% since 2000, with gun deaths rising sharply as well. Should Hawai‘i be doing more to ...

In its annual report for 2023-24, the PIRC said Taser stun-guns were also used twice on children aged between 11 and 15. The disclosures came as the watchdog, set up in 2013, revealed it had ...

This lack of scrutiny also allowed deputies to invent false justifications for using their stun guns and to downplay how many times they shocked people without fear of being caught, according to the ...

Hidden in the logs, we found a story of excessive Taser use in Mississippi that had gone unnoticed for years. Officers are supposed to avoid shocking anyone for longer than 15 seconds during an ...

With his background in physics and engineering, Cover, who passed away on February 7, 2009, began working on what would become one of the most widely used law enforcement tools in the world: the Taser ...

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It then sends a signal to an Arduino which triggers the stun gun’s fire button, which shocks the player holding the guitar. As you might expect, the documentation for this project includes a ...