TASERS
Database
RCMP data on use of stun guns
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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
- Taser stories by CBC
- A list of audio stories
- 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:
- RCMP softened Taser-use restrictions
- Frédéric Zalac reports: March 26, 2009 (16:25)
- 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)
Audio
- Interview with NDP public safety critic Jack Harris
- April 2009
- Interview with Liberal MP Mark Holland
- April 2009
- Interview with Hilary Homes of Amnesty International Canada
- April 2009
- The CBC's David McKie reports for World Report
- April 2009
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
