Taser guns to be trialled in NSW
New South Wales' newly-formed riot squad will be allowed to trial an electrical stun gun to incapacitate offenders. The taser guns incapacitate people with a five second burst of an electrical current.
Police Minister Carl Scully dismissed concerns about potential misuse.
The circumstances of their use are yet to be determined and it is unclear how quickly they will be put into operation
[US police have a long history of abusing this weapon on the elderly, children, teens, and even people who don't obey commands immediately after being electrocuted (because they are paralysed).
One out of every four suspects shocked with Tasers was unarmed, nonviolent and not posing an apparent immediate threat.
While health risks from Taser shocks remain under debate, officers have fired them at the very young and the very old -- at least 35 people 16 and younger, including a 13-year-old girl, and seven people 61 or older, including an 86-year-old man, were shocked. At least three women claiming to be pregnant were shocked.]
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