Professor John Robertson OBA

There has been a clear increase in the use of tasers by police officers as reported somewhat hysterically by the Daily Record, above, but at the same time we see a significant decline in the number of assaults on officers resulting in injuries.

As taser use began to climb, from 500 in 2020/2021, to 2 084 in 2023/2024 (latest confirmed data) assaults on officers resulting in injury, in the same period, have fallen from 2 100 to 1670, a very significant 20% reduction in only 3 years.

While there may have been other factors at play, the fact that assaults overall have actually increased in the same period in which injuries were increasingly averted, strongly suggest the increased use of tasers is well-justified.

If you’ve been watching BBC Highland cops recently and seeing the kind of people we’re talking about here, getting injured, then like me I feel sure that you’ll have no problems with this level of increased use of tasers.

Sources:

For the statistics – https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=1992895260318371973

For Highland Cops – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m68hqj