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The study is actually a bit inconsistent in its definition of incapacitation. While suspects were "incapacitated" 84.7% of the time, the mean time to incapacitation was 8.23 seconds. In a self-defense situation, that amount of time is downright leisurely.
Oddly enough, the study indicates that 68.6% of suspects continued to resist after being tasered, so I'm not sure exactly how one would call that "incapacitiation."
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That's right, Tom. Officers are using Tasers under circumstances they feel are ideal (proper back up, etc.) for the application. The DoJ study defined a use as a success if it worked with a five second application and got a 69% rate of success. To compare the effectiveness of a five second Taser application under ideal conditions to that of a single round from a handgun under all conditions is folly.