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The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings 2016, Donald E. Wilkes Jr. Feb 2017

The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings 2016, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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In this Article, Professor Wilkes updates his research on police tasering by surveying the fatal taserings by police officers that occurred in 2016.


The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Part 2, Donald E. Wilkes Jr. Mar 2016

The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Part 2, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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This article updates the author's previous article on the statistics on deaths resulting from police taserings.


The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Donald E. Wilkes Jr. Feb 2016

The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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There is, newfound interest in obtaining accurate information about police use of force in this country. This means, among other things, that we need reliable statistics about police violence. We cannot address the problem of unlawful police violence unless we possess adequate statistical information about all police violence, lawful as well as unlawful.

This article explores the violence of police tasering and the statistics of this practice.