In situations of death or grievous bodily harm, we believe an appropriate response—I believe this response has been endorsed by the courts—is lethal force. We talked about the importance of officer safety. We do not train our officers to respond with like force with respect to the threat they are facing. We teach them, and we believe it is appropriate, to respond with greater force. So if, with respect to them or another individual, there is a threat of death or grievous bodily harm, we authorize and instruct our officers to use lethal force.
With regard to the taser, all of the evidence we have, incomplete and imperfect as it is, indicates that deploying a taser is far less likely to cause serious injury or death than the use of a firearm. As I have indicated, the only time we would suggest to our officers that they use a taser, if they're facing a threat of death or grievous bodily harm, is if there is someone else there with them providing lethal overwatch and using lethal force if the deployment of the taser does not resolve the situation.