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 ...

More often than not, using a taser on someone usually ends with cheese and wine -the occasional phone number exchange- and it’s because of this not-lethal-enough stigma that the fine folks over at ...

Most every law enforcement agency understands the inherent value of making less-lethal force options available to their first responders. Less-Lethal force options are no longer found only in ...

A judge on Monday allowed the defense team for Michael Slager to order outside testing of the former North Charleston policeman’s Taser and uniform. Central to Slager’s defense against a murder charge ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested outside the headquarters of Scottsdale-based Taser International on Friday, calling for the use of less-lethal electroshock guns on ...

Aurora police are testing a new Batman-like restraint device that can immobilize a suspect or person in distress from afar without putting the officer’s safety at risk. Officers demonstrated the ...

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 ...