LETTER: Tasers could deter people from committing crimes

Thursday, October 21, 2010 | 5:31 p.m. CDT

COLUMBIA — Two interesting propositions were posed by Jeff Stack in his Oct. 19 Letter to the Editor. First he stated that police officers primarily deal with marginalized citizens (jobless, mentally ill, poor) who, by his inference, deserve special treatment when breaking the law, and second, that the use of Tasers could possibly prompt violence from angry citizens.

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