Taser audit ready
KTRK-13 got an advance look at the city's Taser audit which shows African-Americans have been on the receiving end a majority of the time:
We got these numbers ahead of the city controller's audit expected to come out any day. It shows 64% of the Taser incidents since the implementation involve African Americans. In a city where less than 25% of the population is black, some say these numbers are alarming.
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From December 3rd of 2004 to April 30th of this year, HPD's statistics show officers used their Tasers more than 1,600 times. More males are stunned with them than females and by far more African Americans.
Out of the 1,675 uses, 380 involved a Hispanic suspect, 202 were used against whites and in more than a 1,000 cases the suspect was black.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 06/08/08 06:05 AM | Houston Miscellany | Print | Comments (18)
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