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As New York City Considers Tasers, Jury Awards $6 Million in Death

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Source: Crime and Justice News, June 11, 2008.

"Four days before a consultant suggested the New York Police Department expand its use of Tasers, Taser International was hit with a $6 million verdict for the death of a California man, the New York Daily News reports. A federal jury found that the Arizona- based company should have better warned Salinas, Ca., police that the weapon's shocks were potentially dangerous. The jury held Salinas police financially blameless in the death of a 40-year-old drug user whose enlarged heart gave out after repeated shocks."

"The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International USA have called for a moratorium on Tasers; the Rand Corp. recommended that New York test wider use. NYPD has about 500 Tasers in use; a pilot program would put Tasers on the hips of rank- and-file cops in targeted police precincts. Rand estimated that 25 of the 455 police-related shootings it reviewed might have been prevented if cops had Tasers".

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Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).