Province stands firm on Tasers
February 18, 2009
Edmonton Sun
Alberta won't change its policy for the police use of Tasers, despite a study showing a six-fold spike in the deaths of detainees in the first year of stun gun use by California police.
Liberal MLA Kent Hehr raised the study in the legislature yesterday and noted RCMP changed guidelines so Tasers are only used if "there is an immediate danger to an officer or a member of the public."
The province is testing a model of Tasers used in Alberta after a media outlet did a report alleging that model was capable of shooting out more electrical current than 50,000 volts.
Solicitor General Fred Lindsay said the 340 models of that type of Taser will remain in active use as the government studies its own test results on 100 of them.
Lindsay said that since 2005 there have "been two deaths that have been associated with the use of that instrument ... but there are probably hundreds of lives that have been saved because the only alternative in a number of these instances would have been lethal force."
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Lindsay said that since 2005 "...probably hundreds of lives that have been saved because the only alternative in a number of these instances would have been lethal force."
Lindsay is obviously not very good with numbers. Historically, police in the entire contry only shoot a few people a year (maybe a dozen on a bad year in the whole country).
So he seems to be claiming that the police in Alberta would have been the worst band of mass murderers in Canadian history if it weren't for the 'blessed taser'.
Lindsay's claims are insane and a sure-fire sign of too much Taser brainwashing. We would all benefit if he would start using his head for more than holding his hat off his shoulders.
"...hundreds..." Puhleeze... Don't be so stupid.
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