You can read the entire article at [LINK]. My role is to examine the propaganda coming from Taser spokespuppets.
(CP) VANCOUVER — ...Steve Tuttle, spokes[puppet] for Taser International... "Look at our 14-year track history... ...more than a million exposures to the Taser system in the field and with volunteers."
"million exposures": The vast majority of these exposure are 'FAKE'. By fake I mean that the typical training scenario puts the X26 barbs anywhere on the trainee except across the chest. Even in actual street deployments, the 'Drive Mode' where the device is applied to the lower torso appears to be far more common than using the stand-off mode where the barbs are fired towards the chest. And even if the barbs are fired, they're only going to actually land on the chest in the worst location in some fraction of those incidents.
Taser is 'Denominator Washing'. [LINK] "More than a million" is meaningless. The X26 barbs on chest number is unknown, but it is certainly a very tiny fraction of that meaningless washed-out denominator.
What is the death rate when the barbs actually do land on the chest? [LINK][LINK][LINK]
"14-year track history": Taser's Smith admitted that "...the original technology did not work that well". And then he went on to describe the (19Hz) X26. [LINK] The X26 taser has been out since 2003. The taser-associated death rate started to go up dramatically starting at about the same time. See figure below and [LINK] for details and source links.
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