Tasers are becoming an increasingly prominent tool in the arsenal of police in Nottinghamshire and elsewhere. This should raise important questions, regardless of whether you accept the anarchist critique of the police as a tool of state control, view them as a necessary evil or actually regard the boys in blue as good for society. However, these questions do not seem to be asked. Despite a number…

Police in Nottinghamshire have apologised for accidentally shooting a 14-year-old girl with a Taser.

[so much for highly trained officers ..... they missed their target]