The Defence Scientific Advisory Council's sub-committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Weapons (DOMILL), an independent group of medical experts, has issued four statements on the medical implications of the use of the Taser.
In the end, less-lethal weapons don't mean police use less force, according to Chris Stone, a criminal justice professor at Harvard who worked on the Stern report.
In this country, many police departments dealing with crowd control are embracing so-called less-lethal weapons.
Sid Heal is an expert on less-lethal weapons and a commander with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
In Oakland, California, the police department is now barred from using a number of less-lethal weapons for crowd control.
It will be up to Congress to fund programs to assess the safety of less-lethal weapons and set the standards for using them.
But he said he is close to making a decision on whether or not to give pilots less than lethal weapons such as Tasers.
They developed less than lethal weapons - guns that hurt but do not kill - as a means of resolving conflict without causing serious or fatal injuries.
The sonic devices could prove less deadly than so-called "non-lethal" weapons such as Tazers and pepper spray guns that have actually caused some fatalities.
He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", camp officials said, but no serious injuries were reported.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", a military spokesman said, but no serious injuries were reported.
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