How low is low?

In my immediately previous post [LINK] I tried to make clear that it is not fair to trade-off the lives of innocents against the lives of violent criminals that may be attacking the police. I tried to describe how the karma factor imposes a very high standard upon the taser.

So stating that the risk of death is "low" is not clear enough. "Well less than 1%" (even if that were true, which appears unlikely) is probably unsatisfactory.

Also, have a look at a previous post to understand the relativity of the viewpoint. [LINK]

The long and short of it is that these experts need to be more clear when they speak about low numbers.


And they need to direct their attention to full-on X26 deployments with the barbs across the chest and the 5-second cycle repeated several times. Washing out the statistics (by artificially increasing the denominator of the ratios, intentionally or otherwise) by including deployments that do not meet this riskiest deployment is misleading. When we try to consider this factor from our end, the real-world statistics are only made to look many times worse.