clipped from: digits.newsvine.com The police tasers in Honolulu, according to the Honolulu Advertiser, will begin getting equipped with video cameras in response to increasing controversy over how tasers are being used.
Honolulu is moving in the right direction with wanting to keep litigation and malfeasance at bay, but it still remains a question as to whether the general population is aware that tasers are not as safe as propagandized.
Police officials said the move is to show the community how the nonlethal weapons are used, but also to offer some protection to officers and the police department against lawsuits.
With even the verbiage of the Honolulu Advertisers article, it is clear that a majority of the people accept that a taser is a non-lethal weapon, despite numerous claims from medical experts and studies [ not conducted by people associated with taser makers ] to the contrary.
Tasers with video cameras should be a given. But should we stop there?