Archive for September, 2008
Force Science News #106: New Taser Decision Has Extra Meat for Law Enforcement
A case involving the stun-drive Tasering of a handcuffed arrestee was decided this month by a federal Court of Appeals panel in Florida, with some instructive language regarding what’s permissible in the handling of passively resisting subjects by an officer working alone.
In assessing a deputy’s actions in delivering Taser shocks to an arrestee who would not get off the ground to be moved to a patrol car, the panel ruled 2-1 on Sept. 9 that:
Force Science News #105: New Research Offers Hope for Cops Fighting Terrorists
“Local law enforcers tend to believe that terrorists come from a long distance away to attack without warning in their jurisdiction,” says Dr. Brent Smith, director of the Terrorism Research Center at the University of Arkansas. “Officers often feel they are prey and that there’s nothing much they can do about it. We need to alter that mind-set.”
The results to date of a multi-phase research project Smith is leading for the National Institute of Justice should help do just that. Read the rest of this entry »
