Taser Taser Taser

Didn't a former supernintendo of the CPD end up working for Taser International?

• Nearly 800 Tasers are being shipped to the Chicago Police Department to help cut down on deadly police shootings under a five-year $10 million contract with Taser International.
  
  The city just signed a contract with Taser and announced Thursday that more than 780 Tasers will arrive in Chicago soon. By June 1, every officer responding to calls for service will have one, police say.
  
  The additional number of Tasers brings the department's total to almost 1,500.

Now tell everyone that people armed with knives or bats still fall into the category of "assailant with a deadly weapon" and by law, are met with deadly force. Or is that not part of "having our backs"?

Then there's this:

• But Richard Wooten, who heads up a group of retired African American cops, says Tasers are not the answer.
  
  "We're not thrilled about the Tasers. One thing about the Tasers, first of all in the winter time, they are less effective because of the layers of clothing," said Wooten, of the Gathering Point Community Council. "It doesn't have the impact that it would in the summer time. Secondly, you don't know the medical condition of the person you're utilizing the TASERS on."
  
  Wooten said he believes bean bag guns would be better, less harmful tools.
  
  "The bean bag gun is a non-lethal form, but it is much more effective than a Taser," Wooten said.

First of all, why does a retiree have anything to do with dictating current policy?

Second, bean bags are the ticket. What's the worst that could happen? John Kass could write a year's worth of articles on you shooting someone with a bean bag round that kills someone? Oh wait......