Toronto seeking approval to equip ALL OFFICERS with Tasers

July 7, 2007
Betsy Powell, Toronto Star

"The chief disagrees with the recommendation from a coroner's jury that the tasers, if issued, require "full accountability features including the video recorder." He cites the size, the cost and the fragility of the video equipment, which will "only add to the already high rate of unit failure." He says 25 per cent of Toronto's tasers have been returned to the manufacturer for replacement. In its most recent semi-regular bulletin, the Toronto Police Accountability Coalition referred to a website called www.truthnottasers.blogspot.com established by a Vancouver woman after her brother died in 2004 after police used a Taser."

Contrary to this article, while my brother died in Vancouver, I'm not a Vancouver woman. I'm an Ontario taxpayer. It's ironic that, if this $8.5 million taser purchase is approved, my tax dollars will help to finance it.