http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006..._409_13_06.txt taser didn;t work
Not every officer is eager to strap on a Taser. Seattle officer Adrian Diaz said he would rather trust his martial-arts skills than the new device.
"I'm very cautious when it comes to a new tool," he said.
He remains unconvinced even though he went through Taser training and was knocked down when he was shot with one.
"We have cases where it just doesn't stop everybody," Diaz said.
Even officers who swear by Tasers know they are far from perfect. The darts allow just a single shot, sometimes they miss, sometimes people fight through the painful shock, and on occasion, nothing happens at all.
"My faith in my Taser has been shaken," one deputy wrote in a December 2003 report after two Taser shots failed to drop a mentally ill woman threatening to cut herself with a paring knife.
And then there are the high-profile incidents -- the deaths of people shot with Tasers and complaints of abuse filed by others.
Despite all that, many officers from the 1,200-member Seattle Police Department to the 45-member Lynnwood Police Department want the devices.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...asercop30.html
I rest my case even law enforcement officers will say they don't drop everyone... at the beg of the story a 220lbs man droped like a fly but the woman held her ground because she was "INTENT" following through with her intentions...