The Scoop

Tony Bartleme of the Charleston Post and Courier used local data to show that “during an 18-month period, North Charleston police fired or threatened to use their Tasers 201 times. During the past six months, officers used them especially often, firing them an average of once every 40 hours. Despite all these stuns, few people were harmed, and most injuries were related to the barbs digging into people’s bodies, according to the department’s reports.” A recent death of a man that police shocked nine times with Tasers prompted the paper’s review.