No Tasers for SFPD

Your headline suggests that you have swallowed the lemonade.

Editor,

Your headline suggests that you have swallowed the lemonade.

As abundant testimony and 75 witnesses testified Tasers are instruments of torture not instruments of effective law enforcement.

Once the SFPD has these instruments of torture there will be no stopping their abusive, dangerous and deadly use by police

The Police Commission acknowledged this fact in March, 2010 when they voted against Tasers for the SFPD.

After  last year's anti-Taser vote Taser International changed their website  to reflect that the onus for liability for Taser use lay with the police  departments who buy and use them, not on Taser International.

Taser's website shows that Tasers are so dangerous and so much abused as to render them totally ineffective in law enforcement.

Once  the horse is out of the barn with near certain Commission approval be  weary of their abusive and dangerous use (don't forget the BART murder).

Nick Pasquariello
San Francisco resident
City College student