Field Statistics Overview

Previous publications have reported the field usage for various law enforcement agencies [1,2]. We sought to calculate the overall usage from local usage rates and detailed CEW sales data. Reports of law enforcement CEW usage were gathered from web searches. These covered 187 reports from 118 unique agencies for the years 1986–2008. A total of 156 reports were from the United States (83%) with the remainder coming fromCanada. The reporting period duration for an agency ranged from 6 weeks to 6 years with a mean of 1.03 0.53 years. The reports covered departments with 10–40,000 officers with 2–3847 TASER CEWs deployed in a department.

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