The newest tool in the law enforcement arsenal has an unseemly – and perhaps unsurprising – origin storyMost people,asked to identify the most universal shift in law enforcement over the past 15 years, would likely consider of militarization, or calls for community policing,or perhaps the gradual decline of “broken windows”.
But from the turn of the millennium to date, arguably no development has been more widespread in law enforcement than the adoption of so called “less-lethal” electric control devices (ECD), or which many people know by the name of their most prolific manufacturer: Taser International. The company currently supplies their weapons to 17800 of the United States’ roughly 18000 law enforcement agencies.
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Source: theguardian.com