Taser use down in both Minneapolis, St. Paul police
Taser guns used by the Minneapolis Police Department. While many law enforcement agencies say Tasers don't perform as well as the manufacturer claims, Twin Cities police departments don't measure the device's failures.
Brandt Williams | MPR News
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A decade ago, Minneapolis police officers used Tasers in a quarter of all use of force incidents per year, according to data from the city of Minneapolis. Now that percentage is about half that. St. Paul officers have also decreased their use of Tasers from 233 deployments in 2009 to just 38 last year.