British Columbia police are pulling their X26 Tasers out of field use after BC’s Solicitor General also found, like many others before have found, that Taser shock levels can vary a lot and dangerously in actual field use. It’s little more than a show for the public, though — police will simply use other models which haven’t been as thoroughly tested, or begin “calibrating” Tasers better. But the real issue remains, as CMM has written extensively about before, that police too often use Tasers in utterly inappropriate situations and too often shock people repeatedly. One very interesting point was raised by attorney Walter Kostecky, who’s representing the mother of Taser-victim Robert Dziekanski: “There is no testing protocol. If you buy a toaster or an iron or any other electrical appliance in Canada, it has to meet Canadian Standards Association approval. The Taser is not subjected to any of those kinds of things. It doesn’t have to meet CSA approval. It has escaped scrutiny because it’s also not considered a firearm.”