marshaul
Campaign Veteran
There are 364 days in a year, which means there are at least 364 tasered civilians. Let me think about this, would I rather an LEO tase a person or shoot the person? Apparently, force has been deemed necessary--we aren't talking about excessive, yet.
False dilemma. You're relying on the premise that whether police "deem" force to be "necessary" is unaffected by availability and acceptable use criteria of various forms of force.
This premise is self-evidently false. Anyone can see that police are encouraged to use force where otherwise they would not by the presence and lax acceptable use criteria of tasers.