Taser Technology

Running head: TASER TECHNOLOGY - CHANGING THE WORLD AND

TASER Technology - Changing the World and Protecting Lives!

Raj Maharaj

University of Phoenix

TASER Technology - Changing the World and Protecting Lives!

The TASER gun provides safer use-of-force options for police officers. This product saves lives everyday and it dramatically reduces injury rates officers, thereby lowering liability risk and improving officer safety. The TASER gun is revolutionizing law enforcement and changing the world with safer, effective and more accountable tools for the trade.

The TASER gun quickly incapacitates dangerous, combative or high-risk suspects, who pose a risk to law enforcement officers or themselves; by propelling two small probes at the suspect. An electrical signal is then transmitted through the probes, resulting in an immediate loss of the person’s neuromuscular control and the ability to perform coordinated action for the duration of the impulse while allowing an instant recovery once the cycle ceases. Dr. Richard Luceri (Luceri, 2005), a renowned cardiac rhythm specialist concluded, “The PACE article, using pigs of comparable human weights (66 to 257 lbs), confirms the extraordinarily wide safety margins for fibrillation induction in TASER-like products. Average fibrillation induction required 28 times the energy of commercially available TASER products, far greater than the safety margin of most cardiac drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These data add scientifically validated support to the large database of favorable TASER outcomes collected in the field.”

As the TASER Gun technology takes-off, the percentage of officers injured in the line of duty decrease. In 2007, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California deployed the TASER gun for the very first time. Based on the on going controversy of the TASER gun, they kept stats on officers injured in the line of duty compared to the stats from 2003,...