Tasers have a quite significant failure rate and their effective range is pretty much the same distance where a criminal armed with a knife can kill a person even after they've been shot.
This is a good video that shoes just how ineffective less-lethal weapons can be:
LAPD Officers Use Bean Bag Rounds To Arrest Suspect Armed With Metal Stick
WOW... I mean this was crazy - and it's not even look like a very strong or durable person.
Just running around after this guy for so long was putting more people in risk...
Tasers have a quite significant failure rate and their effective range is pretty much the same distance where a criminal armed with a knife can kill a person even after they've been shot.
This is a good video that shoes just how ineffective less-lethal weapons can be:
LAPD Officers Use Bean Bag Rounds To Arrest Suspect Armed With Metal Stick
https://youtu.be/a94n3wD0Qqo
WOW... I mean this was crazy - and it's not even look like a very strong or durable person. Just running around after this guy for so long was putting more people in risk...