一种更强大的泰瑟枪能结束警察暴力执法中杀人的事件吗？

Axon Enterprise Inc.的首席执行官兼创始人瑞克·史密斯是泰瑟电击枪的开创者，他说他想制造下一代泰瑟枪，使得警察们不再使用手枪。他说：“目前为止，使用致命武器依然是警察们保护自己和他人的最有效方式。如果我们能拥有一种足以完成任务而不会杀人的武器，那么警察杀人的理由就会消失。”这位50岁的企业家自1993年创立公司以来，一直在想方设法，从根本上改变警察们的工作。然而，正如最近引起轰动的乔治·弗洛伊德和雷沙徳·布鲁克斯被警察杀害案件所显示的那样，泰瑟枪和便携摄像头的广泛使用并没有解决问题。马萨诸塞州剑桥市的前警察局长罗伯特·哈斯说：“你不应该把技术看成解决问题的办法，我们需要的是重新思考警察们的工作。”

Rick Smith, the man who pioneered Taser stun guns, says he wants to manufacture a next-generation Taser that is so effective police officers won’t have to use their pistols anymore. But he says it will take 10 years. “Lethal force, even today, is still the most effective way to stop a threat,” Mr. Smith, chief executive and founder of Axon Enterprise Inc., said in an interview. “If we had really elevated weapons that can do the job and not kill someone, then the rationale for killing people goes away.” The 50-year-old entrepreneur has been on a quest to change policing since 1993 when he started his company, formerly called Taser International. But as the recent police killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks show, widespread use of Taser devices and body-worn cameras hasn’t solved the problem. “You shouldn’t be looking at technology as the fix,” said Robert Haas, a former police commissioner of Cambridge, Mass., who now serves on a number of public-safety committees. Reform will require rethinking policing, he said.  source

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