Taster turn-off
A year-long trial of Taser stun guns by 10 police forces in England and Wales has lost its biggest participant: London’s Metropolitan Police. The Met’s civilian governing body, the Metropolitan Police Authority, was prepared to allow the use of Tasers as an alternative to guns on London’s streets but not in addition to guns, as the Met has requested.
Unwitting acquitted
Four doctors and a US drug company have been acquitted of negligence following Canada’s worst public health disaster. More than 20,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis C during the 1980s and 1990s after receiving contaminated blood products.…
