Injury rates following conducted electrical weapons and other less-lethal force modalities in real-life police settings: a comparative literature review
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DOI: 10.1007/s12024-025-01020-9
Abstract: The aim of this study was to rank the rate and risk ratio of subject injury following exposure to less-lethal force modalities in real-life police interventions. The purpose was to observe whether the use of… read more here.
Keywords: less lethal; force; force modalities; modalities real ... See more keywords
The language of less-lethal weapons
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117779119
Abstract: It has been over 1 year since we observed the policing of the George Floyd protests in the United States [R. R. Hardeman, E. M. Medina, R. W. Boyd, N. Engl. J. Med. 383, 197–199… read more here.
Keywords: engl med; language; less lethal; language less ... See more keywords
The “Less-Than-Lethal Weapons Effect”—Introducing TASERs to Routine Police Operations in England and Wales: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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DOI: 10.1177/0093854818812918
Abstract: We used a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of mass deployment of TASERs on policing. The findings show that the presence of a TASER is causally linked to statistically significant increases in the… read more here.
Keywords: police; randomized controlled; controlled trial; effect ... See more keywords