The Los Angeles Police Department will test a new generation of Tasers that have greater range, which LAPD officials say could help officers more easily control uncooperative people and prevent the ...

Ex-cop Kim Potter is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright. Potter has said that she intended to grab her Taser instead of her gun when she fatally shot Wright during a ...

The Los Angeles Police Commission this week approved arming several hundred officers in Hollywood and South L.A. with new Tasers that have more than double the range as their old models, an upgrade ...

(TNS) — Wichita police are wanting to test a virtual reality training simulator and a new Taser, with plans to implement them department-wide if the tests are successful. Officials from Arizona-based ...

In Minnesota, the manslaughter trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter continued Monday, with a medical examiner testifying the wound Daunte Wright received from Potter’s handgun was ...

There has been some controversy regarding the use of the Taser in controlling subjects in police custody, including reports of deaths. In a paper to be presented at the 2007 Society for Academic ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Tuesday they would test 24 Tasers bought before 2006 after a media investigation suggested older models of the stun gun could fire excessively ...

Harris County officials are awaiting results from blood tests taken on a 52-year-old man who died after being shocked by a Taser gun late Friday. Harris County Precinct 1 Constable deputies used the ...

The rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns, according to a UCSF study. Findings also showed a two-fold ...