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Tasers, fares, and Transit cops
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Tasers ought to be wonderful things. They supplement — and in many cases, replace — other, less effective weapons in a police officer’s force continuum. Rather than resort to unreliable and indiscriminate pepper spray or inflict potentially permanent crippling damage with a nightstick, cops with tasers can — from a distance — gain a five-second window of control over violent people who don’t need to be shot. Yes, tasers occasionally kill people without obvious reason, but it wouldn’t shock me (heh heh) to discover that cops kill people with tasers at about the same rate as they’ve previously killed people with batons and pepper spray.
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