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...many police departments are still not regulating the use of Tasers in accordance with nationally accepted standards. According to 29 guidebooks on ECWs obtained by the Guardian from police departments where a death has occurred after the weapon was deployed this year, an overwhelming majority of them flout key tenets of the expert advice:
- Twenty police departments do not guide officers against more than three shocks in all but exceptional circumstances.
- None of the 29 departments, according to their use of force guidelines, mandate use-of-force investigations into incidents where an ECW is deployed for more than 15 seconds.
- Twenty-two departments do not advise against deploying ECWs if the sole justification is that the suspect is fleeing.
- Twenty-five departments do not advise against using an ECW's "drive stun" mode, when the weapon is thrust directly into the skin to cause pain, as a compliance technique.
- Thirteen departments do not explicitly restrict officers from deploying their ECWs if a suspect is already in handcuffs and does not pose an exceptional threat.
- Eight departments do not even explicitly require officers to give a warning, when possible, before the ECW is deployed.
Comment: The Microsoft execs that approved of this are a bunch of misogynistic pigs.