Are you talking about the taser itself--the output, the amount of zap, as it were? We have been trying since our report--for over two years--to find an independent laboratory capable of doing that. We have been pushing almost on a monthly basis: “When are you going to do it?” The national police research council, I believe, just told us on Friday that within two weeks they will be in a position to actually do an independent test.
There was an interim test done by an agency called Intertek that suggested the taser output was many, many times higher than the advertised amount by Taser International. However, Taser International then hired another agency, called, I think, Exponent, Inc., that then called their testing methods into question, and Intertek backed off and basically said, “We used different criteria, so it would be misleading to use our results.”
We have been unable to find an independent laboratory, and we've been pushing. I don't have a budget of my own to do that, but the police research council have assured us that within two weeks they'll be able to test it.