Sun Times - Owen Sound's police chief is leading a national research group that has been given the job of producing a paper about tasers that may include recommendations and guidelines for police across the country. Tom Kaye was appointed the head of the Taser committee in August while at the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs meeting in Ottawa and he says the paper will hopefully put to rest the angst the public feels about the use of the conductive energy devices.
"The research into the use of these devices and the deployment of them still has yet to show any kind of casual linkage between the use of (Tasers) and any fatalities anywhere in Canada, North America or even around the world," Kaye said Wednesday. "There is no scientific evidence, no empirical data that would indicate that (Tasers) are posing any kind of a danger, in terms of fatalities, after being used." [LINK]
Utter and complete bull-crap.
1) Taser has been found liable to the tune of $6.2M for failure to warn regarding the lethal blood pH issue.
2) Coroners continue to find cases where they feel it is clear that the taser shocks directly caused the lethal cardiac arrest.
See De-spinning the spin at the top right of this blog for references.
These are just the crystal clear examples. There are hundreds of other examples that are less clear, but indicate a pattern.
Chief Kaye is out of touch and under Taser's spell.
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