Report Calls for Expanded Use of Stun Guns ; Suggestions Follow 50-Shot Slaying of Sean Bell

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › June 11, 2008

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NEW YORK The New York Police Department should expand the use of stun guns and include the sound of gunfire or the phrase "He's got a gun!" in weapons-training exercises.

Those were recommendations made by an independent review commissioned after the shooting death of an unarmed man on his wedding day.

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Report Calls for Expanded Use of Stun Guns ; Suggestions Follow 50-Shot Slaying of Sean Bell

Overall, the report by the Rand Corp. praised the department's training and procedures on firearms. Researchers looked at 455 cases from 2004 through 2006 that had been...

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