In circumstances which require that in order to deal with the threat posed to him or to the public. I guess you could pose another question: under what circumstances would it be reasonable for an officer to punch an individual more than once and what is the right number with respect to how many times an officer should punch an individual? Is it once, twice, five times, fifteen times, twenty times? The answer comes back to “it depends upon the circumstances”.
What we teach our officers to do is to use only the amount of force that they are compelled to use. That is what we teach with respect to the use of their hands. That is what we teach them with respect to the use of a baton. That is what we teach with respect to the use of a firearm, except that obviously any use of a firearm brings with it a very significant risk of serious injury and death.
There is no simple or universal prescription with respect to once, twice, three times, or five times. We are certainly very concerned about multiple use of the CEW, which is why we stress the risks and why we have in our policy, as we have had, the statement with respect to risks of multiple deployments. That's why we're working with the CPC and others to examine every situation where the CEW is deployed, including multiple deployments.