COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Corporal Matthew Stice pointed his Taser at Martini Smith’s bare chest. Smith was 20 years old, pregnant and stripped nearly naked, standing in a cell in the Franklin County ...

University of South Wales provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently urged the police to take “all necessary action” in response to unrest across cities ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The use of Taser stun weapons by U.S. police forces inflicts very few serious injuries, researchers said on Monday, but a leading human rights group was unswayed, pressing its ...

Law enforcement agencies across the country started using Tasers and similar weapons about three decades ago. The still-evolving technology quickly reduced injuries among officers and subjects, ...

Less than two weeks after the police-involved shooting at the Sutter Avenue subway station in Brownsville, questions remain about the NYPD's use of Tasers. On the day of the shooting, police opened ...

TORONTO -- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Friday that it will restrict its use of Taser stun guns in response to a watchdog agency report that officers were firing them too often. Three people ...

Recent reports have highlighted the troubling use of tasers against political campaign participants and civilians attending rallies. Individuals have allegedly been subjected to electrical shocks ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Virginia State Police are investigating after Roanoke Police shot and killed a suspect after he stabbed a woman and refused to put down a knife. VSP says the suspect was 26 years old, ...

New figures released by Police Scotland show that the use of Tasers by officers has risen by more than 100 percent since 2021 ...

In 2006, Taser hired Paul Hughes, a barrel-chested ex-Marine, to lead its push into corrections. Hughes, who left Taser in late 2009, said the new market demanded a new pitch. Police saw Tasers as ...