‘Majority of tased people by UK police mentally ill’

‘A new report indicates that over two-thirds of people tasered by British police between 2010 and 2014 were mentally ill.

Police use of the stun guns increased over the period from 6,238 incidents in 2010 to 9,196 last year, and there has been a corresponding rise in the number of incidents involving mentally ill people, from 2,737 in 2010 to 4,200 in 2014, the Independent reported citing Home Office figures.

The latest statistics were released in response to a Freedom of Information request made by the website The Justice Gap. It revealed that in 67 percent of cases in which tasers were discharged, they were fired at people identified by officers as mentally ill.’

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