Taser report: Use of force statistics

• Date: June-July 2020
• Authors: @WheresAlice & @kimadactyl
• Purpose: Resistance Lab Taser Report

Initial work done towards Taser report. This is a deep dive into the Use of Force statistics, which are in a very unfriendly but seemingly complete format. There are three graphs this data is intended for use with:

• Police Taser use disproportional use against Black and Brown people
• Police Taser use against children and young people
• Police Taser use against people with mental and physical health conditions

It is safe to sum individual types of force across multiple police forces, however it is not safe to sum different types of force.

For each a melted data source has been added. We have also created a data mapping as the source spreadsheet implies a hierarchy of data that doesn’t make sense out of context.

Reading the User Guide is essential to interpret these stats.