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New 50,000-volt Taser offers capability to shock multiple 'targets' at once

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Apr 02, 2009 at 19:00:00 PM EDT


My, my, is this what we call progress in the New World Police State? Taser International has convinced our friends across the pond to deploy the "electronic control device" in London this week, where protestors can feel the burn, as it were, if they get too out of hand. (AlterNet):
Months after the Republican National Convention in the U.S., such sweeping security measures may seem to be par for the course. But in the UK -- where police forces have traditionally not carried guns -- it was not that long ago that Tasers were new to the streets. Since their arrival in the spring of 2003, however, their popularity has skyrocketed; last fall, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith unveiled a plan to spend £8 million on Tasers and Taser training for 30,000 police officers, providing some 10,000 new Tasers to police across England and Wales. "I am proud that we have one of the few police services around the world that do not regularly carry firearms," Smith said, "and I want to keep it that way." But an arms expert at Amnesty International UK called the move "a dangerous step in British policing," citing "numerous" taser deaths in North America as a cautionary example.
There are plenty of cases to review right here on the Blend. But Taser International is now offering a model with new and enhanced capabilities that is surely going to be attractive to the sadist set...
On March 31, the company's latest Taser model -- called the Shockwave -- hit the market; according to Taser International website, it "allows for both increased safety and stand-off capability during hostile situations, minimizing risk with a stand-off distance of up to 100 meters." But as Dalia Hashad, director of Amnesty International's USA Program focusing on domestic human rights, wrote about the product last falll, the Shockwave "belongs in my 'You've Got to Be Kidding' file along with Taser International's leopard-print MP3 player that doubles as a taser and their employment of Playboy Bunnies for promotion." The company's literature shows it to be a powerful crowd-control weapon:
"With the push of a button at a stand-off distance of up to 100 meters, the Shockwave unit deploys multiple standard TASER® cartridges that are oriented across an area arc. Full area coverage is provided to instantaneously incapacitate multiple personnel within that region."
En masse Tasing capability -- when law enforcement cannot even educate cops on the beat to use a single-stun device appropriately --  is unbelievable. Take a look at this device in action (via EnGadget):
The first (gulp) generation of Taser remote area denial systems consists of a Taser 6-shooter module covering a 20-degree arc at 25-feet. Best of all, they can be daisy-chained into an apparently endless array of hot neuro muscular incapacitation action.
And there's video from Taser International (you MUST watch this).

Hat tip, Radha.

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mass heart attacks.
can't wait to see multiple heart attacks resulting from a mass tazering.  or a whole crowd of people screaming and writhing in pain on the evening news.  this kind of ramping up may be just what we need to finally get people to understand that these torture devices need to be out of the hands of police.  i hope...

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Sooner or later, someone
is going to use the multi target capabilities to give a much stronger shock to just one person.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

This would have been the perfect Taser
to use at this deputy's bachelor party!!

Oh, good times, good times...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


tasars
I think these tasars are dangerous and not good for mankind.  Imagine being shocked with so much electricity, this cannot be good for the human body.  Granted its better than being shot with real bullets, but even this is something that shouldn't be allowed, but once again America leads the way for stupidity.

You have the right to carry arms, you have the right to use arms.  Then when your kids use them to vent their minor confrontations on things that could be sorted out, with a little deplomacy, but instead they resort to the very thing you have been promoting as your right to defend and protect, you have a problem with this.  Smacks of double standards.  Soon your kids will be tasing people and then the whole cycle starts again.  Well Armerica you may be the most powerfulest country in the world but that doesn't mean your the smartest.

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Ummm... I agree with you re:Tasers
My link was to a story about deputies and State police in Maine using a Taser as part of a drunken bachelor party hazing.

These were idiots caught ON THEIR OWN VIDEO doing this, with a superior senior officer standing nearby holding a beer. And the Taser was "borrowed" from a neighboring county's sheriff department for this off-duty horsesh*t.

They later tied the deputy up, essentially tarred and feathered him, popped him into the back of a pickup truck, and drove up and down a busy stretch of coastal Maine highway in summer (the busiest part of tourist season). All drunk and out hitting more bars.

They were "reprimanded"- and nothing else.

"Double standards? My kids will be tasing people? America may be powerful but not smart?"

Did you mean to place this in conjunction to my link, which you obviously did not read, or just made assumptions?  

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


[ Parent ]
Re Tasers
I sorry if i offended you, having read back over my comments i see they were a little harsh, but the point i'm tring to make is a valid one.  

I simply tring to point out that if you have the right to carry arms and arms are readily available, it should not suprise you when these same arms are use for illegal activity.


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That's nasty!
That's nasty! Looks like the cops are going to have a field day electrocuting people. A taser itself can cause seizure isn't it? What will happen if the multiple "targets" is actually a single target?

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Shockwave.....
   The Shockwave is a Taser version of a Claymore
mine. Like a Claymore mine, the Shockwave has molded
into it, this way to enemy. The Claymore read front
toward enemy.
Little doubt that Shockwave was
inspired by the Claymore.
   At least in Canada, there has been some rethinking about
the Taser. The tragic death of Robert Dzieka?ski at Vancouver
Airport in November '07 after being tasered several times
by RCMP officers caused a big stir in country and several large police agencies have put orders on hold. In the U.S.,
Taser fatalities draw little notice which in itself is
tragic.

50,000!!!
I think that this is a great tool but in my home state here if MN there is a lawsuit going on right now about a man being killed by a taser. I stopped his heart and he was completely healthy and only 28 years old.

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I heard about that, I also heard that the family is suing the state and the manufacturer. I doubt that they we'll against the manufacturer but I guess we'll see what happens.

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[ Parent ]
Is there any possible
claim to "legitimate" use of this kind of device?  It seems like it would be incapable of anything but mass retribution against non-violent targets (because an armed crowd would be more of a threat than this instrument could deal with) and/or the deliberate incitement of mass panic (with the ensuing entirely predictable injuries and potential loss of life -- not even counting the people who are directly attacked).  Normal tasers are easy enough to abuse that they really shouldn't be given to police; this thing seems like it has abuse as its sole function.

When will the madness stop?
  I can understand the need for police to have weapons to protect themselves as well as protect the citizens the police force is there to protect.  The video is completely disturbing to say the least.  There are some seriously demented marketing personal in this world.  But I am sure there are people who really get off on this stuff.

 I don't have a warped mind so I can't think what this death device would be used in or a situation where it would be needed.  As a commenter mentioned above, this thing is like a land mine.  But with a remote control device so a person can set it off.  If deployed on a group of people, how will it determine the difference between the good guys and bad guys?  

 I have read enough on single deployment tasers, and the stories are scary as hell.  I am amazed these devices are still in use.  The lack of training law enforcement has proven not to have, these things can only make things worse.

 As we are discovering that during the last 8 years, our police have been receiving less training, less pay and more hours to work.  One bad event with these things and the little respect there is for police officers will be completely gone.  Doesn't anyon ever think about these things anymore?

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


The madness will stop when a majority of citizens want it to stop.
There are, and always have been, seriously demented people in the world. That isn't the problem. The problem is when a majority of people accept the ideas of those seriously demented people.


[ Parent ]
A natural limitation...
Sounds like something right out of Orwell - and that's exactly what it is; the product of a decades-long political mindfuck.  To wit, this kind of authoritarian warfare is much more easily accepted by a disarmed citizenry.  Physically pacified, for the obvious reason... and psychologically pacified, by the constant media drumming of this notion that we're somehow making people "safer" by continually rolling back something that is every bit as much a constitutional right as the freedom of speech or the protection against unreasonable search and seizure.

I don't know about anyone else, but this is one lefty who definitely thinks we should keep our guns.


The video was posted on the Taser site on 4/1
is there any hope it's an April Fool joke?

I'm waiting for the remote-operated camera Taser (with optional IR LEDs) and the motion sensor Taser.




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test subject
imagine being the test subject for this product. You could not pay me enough to test thing hahaha

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Blah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Video of an old guy, my college prof, getting tased. No heart attack, no nothing. And I assure you, he's not the healthiest smoker out there, lol. I know this won't get through on here, but accidents happen. This type of tazer will primarily be used on embassies and situations where they are attempting crowd control, such as the current G20 meeting. You've seen the anarchists out there. This is the perfect tool to get that job done. And no one ever said they are non-lethal devices. These are all categorized as less-than-lethal. Don't get your panties in a bunch.  

Weapon of mass toucher
I don't think this can be classed as a weapon of mass destruction, more a weapon of mass toucher, and in our back yard. I read of one of these such devices being used on a pensioner (85) that had escaped from a old peoples home, he was apparently threatening to take his own life, so police used it for his own good (yea right) - however he had a heart attack! The good news? He survived it. Bad news? When is the right time to use such a weapon?

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Forgive me if you already know about this, but
have you seen the new Taser shotgun shell?

Bad enough it's a Taser at all but if I understood the lit correctly, it will chamber in a regular shotgun.  Expect a rash of "accidental" chambering of real shotgun shells.  "I mixed up the shells, I swear!"


Taser
"Full area coverage is provided to instantaneously incapacitate multiple personnel within that region."

Based on the use of the word "personnel," they must have labor control in mind. So much "less lethal" than the old methods of strike breaking.


This thread was like a spammers convention.
I count four of them.
Must have been a full moon.

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