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MD: Analysis Looks at Taser Use By Police Officers
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The Baltimore Sun analyzed data on the use of Tasers from 2012 to 2014. It found that Baltimore police used Tasers in nearly all cases with suspects who ignore orders, but otherwise were not deemed a threat. In Baltimore, most of the suspects who were stunned were black and two thirds occurred in the city’s lowest media income neighborhoods. |
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mickey
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1. Yep, it's not a 'less lethal alternative to a firearm', it's a 'torture tool used to make people do what the cops want'.
2. So lots of those tased are black people arrested in poor neighborhoods. How do those percentages compare to the percentage of all arrestees who are black or are arrested in poor neighborhoods?
And besides that, what does 'media income' have to do with it? Are you saying that low wages for reporters lead to increased Taser use? |
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