Tasers

There are many disputes about the use of a taser. People say that tasers should be banned from police use due to damages they can cause. Some say they are needed to protect the officers, others might say there are less lethal ways to take down someone. The taser was made to give electrical jolts for a few seconds per shot. There are two arrow like things, called darts, which are shot at a subject. The taser sends several shocks of anywhere from .36 joules to fifty-thousand volts. According to the United States Government, more than 1,440,000 tasers in use by police officers in the field and an additional 100,000 tasers owned by civilians worldwide. There also can be burns and even tissue damage because of the darts going into the skin. The electricity that is released from the taser goes directly into the tissue and is changed to thermal energy. Thermal energy enters the skin and ends up with a dangerous problem called end-organ ischemia. End-organ ischemia is caused when there is something called vascular constriction. This problem, vascular constriction, is when the veins and arteries close and the body cannot. The Stanford Criminal Justice Center says that the issues of tasers have become a leading argument in criminal justice. There are effects on the body when the taser is shot. These effects are supposed to stop the person but not to harm them at all. The taser is intended to be used in two different manors. The normal shooting mode is where two darts are fired anywhere between fifteen and twenty-five feet. The darts send five second blasts of electricity into the subject. There is a shock of fifty-thousand volts sent each time the trigger is pulled. The taser can also be used in a way called the drive-stun mode. This is a close-range method of using the taser without having the darts enter the subject when pulling the trigger.. The time of the electrical shocks stay the same as with the darts. Amounts of energy flow can be changed by either pulling