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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Just a couple things, I'm not an expert, but I don't think people can walk through tasers. I've only seen videos, but those things can take down massive bulls. You're right though, they aren't always effective, especially if the darts miss the person or something happens to the gun itself.
As for the lethal part, I don't think a taser has ever been directly responsible for the death of anyone. People who die after being tased have usually been found to be high on cocaine, and suffered from excited delirium.
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The Madison Police department did a study after they deloyed tasers. In the first year they had 92 deployed usages of which 77 were effective. The failures were
Heavy clothes or baggy clothes 8
Missed 6
Wires broken during arrest 3
Stun failure 2
Weapon malfunction 1
Unknown failure to stun (perp shrugged it off) 1
So there are some failure points with the taser, especially if it isn't used properly (bad aim, close point, low muscle mass hit.
While you can't say that Tasers don't cause deaths there have been incidents where they have attributed to deaths. Especially when used in combination with other factors (use of mace before tasering, drug used, pre-existing health conditions).