[USA] Do Tasers save lives? DeKalb takes another look / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 23 July 2007
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DAVID SIMPSON
"By the time the DeKalb County Police Department stopped its limited use of Tasers in 2005, Phoenix police had gone to the other extreme, giving every officer one of the stun guns. The following year, DeKalb police shot and killed 12 suspects, more than any other metro Atlanta police department. The shootings prompted demonstrations and a grand jury investigation. By contrast, shootings by Phoenix police causing injury or death dropped 54 percent in the first year of full Taser deployment — one of the statistics cited by DeKalb police Chief Terrell Bolton when he announced recently he is considering lifting DeKalb's moratorium and issuing Tasers to all officers."