RCMP use of stun weapons
Multiple use of Tasers and similar devices as a percentage of total incidents
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 | 8:45 PM ET
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Electronic stun guns
In depth:
- Taser FAQs
- What are stun guns?
- Excited delirium
- Is it at the root of many Taser deaths?
- Taser-related deaths in Canada
- A list of documented deaths from 2003 to present
- Searchable database of RCMP Taser use
- Data from 2002 to 2008
- Behind the scenes: CBC's Taser project
- How the story took shape
Documents:
- Response by Magne Nerheim, Taser International vice-president of research and development
- Posted Dec. 4, 2008
- Taser International's official statement on the CBC/Radio-Canada investigation
- Posted Dec. 4, 2008
- Analysis of the quality and safety of Taser X26 devices tested for CBC/Radio-Canada
- Posted Dec. 4, 2008
Video:
- A stunning debate
- Part 1: A joint CBC News/Radio-Canada investigation takes a closer look at Taser International and its claims. (13:51)
- A stunning debate
- Part 2 (9:34)
RCMP and Tasers
- Robert Dziekanski video
- Select footage from hours in Vancouver International Airport
- Use of RCMP Tasers rises dramatically, records show
- CBC News story from March 24, 2008
- RCMP Taser use: Documents show sharp increase in use
- May 13, 2008
- Interactive graphic: RCMP Taser use by province
- Last updated June 2008
- RCMP firing Tasers multiple times at subjects, probe reveals
- CBC News story from June 11, 2008
- Table: RCMP and multiple Taser use
- Last updated June 2008
Related
- Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP's report on RCMP use of Conducted Energy Weapons
- Final report released June 18, 2008, by commissioner Paul Kennedy
- Letter to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day from RCMP Commissioner William Elliot
- PDF file
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Percentages are based on a comparison of incidents in which more than one stun/cartridge/cycle is employed vs. total incidents in which a weapon is used on an individual, from 2002 to 2007. Records do not count in the total if a weapon is drawn but not used.
* Note that Quebec is not included because the RCMP does not operate in that province; policing is handled by the Sûreté du Québec. Numbers in Ontario are low because most incidents are handled by either town or city forces or the Ontario Provincial Police.
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