Police want to use Tasers

And you have to wonder. As Marie Dyhrberg has pointed out, the UN has declared the device as an implement of torture. When you see reality TV cops using Tasers or the Polish immigrant shocked to death for nothing other than expediency - you have to wonder if Taser use is any different to other forms of torture.

If the police in NZ add the Taser to their arsenal it will no replace guns but relatively harmless pepper spray.

It is not the exception that should make the rule in matters of humanity. Police culture would be corrupted by the power of this machine that induces extreme agony. Police should never be trained to punish - that is up to judges and juries.