New questions are surrounding the use of police taser guns after the devices failed to subdue a toll evader with a knife in Brooklyn this month.
shows the actions two officers took when Derrell Mickles didn't follow their commands after toll evading twice and displayed a knife. Less than a minute after the officers caught up with Mickles on the Brooklyn subway platform, they deployed their tasers but the devices didn't work to stop him.
"The male jumps back off the train onto the platform and at one point he's advancing at one of the officers with a knife," said NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey. "It's a very complicated tool," said Chuck Wexler, Executive Director of Police Executive Research Forum, a group that works to improve professionalism in policing.
An NYPD report from 2022, the last year the data's publicly available, shows officers used tasers the most during crimes in progress and with emotionally disturbed people.The report shows that's mainly due to probes falling out, the suspect fights through the pain, or the officer is too far away."If you use this tool 40% of time it doesn't work, what's your plan B going to be if it doesn't work," said Wexler.
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