When you want to achieve an attractive ratio, and you can't really do anything about the numerator, then perhaps you can turn your attention to the denominator. If you can can get away with inflating the denominator, then it artificially decreases the resultant ratio.
I call it denominator washing.
That's why I cry FAKE when Taser tries to include those obviously much safer (cardiac wise, as backed-up by a recent study [LINK]) training sessions where the taser is applied almost anywhere except across the chest. [LINK]
And there have been reports that an officer yelling "Taser taser taser" counts as a taser deployment in some departments.
Increase the denominator to flatten out the overall statistics.
Compare "6 in one million (worst case)" to this approximately renormalized extremely-rough guesstimate: [LINK]
Take the 2008 Taser Challenge: [LINK]
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