so we re going to get started. ok. thanks all for coming out. my name is neal thompson. i m the author of the life of times of alan shepherd which is the first biography of the first american in space. i wanted to say thanks to the u.s. naval academy for having me here, particularly the folks in the bookstore and the visitor center. danielle vaughn and donna player and thanks to the public affairs office here at the naval academy. diane and pat burrows, debbie good and commander gibbons. the naval academy here is where alan shepherd got his start. he was a little boy of the lindbergh generation who grew up who wanted nothing more than to fly airplanes. that was his life s mission. he came from a family of army officers in southern new hampshire is where he was born. and decided at an early age that he didn t want to join the army. he wanted to become a navy officer and learn to fly navy airplanes, which is why he ended up here at the naval academy. a little background
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we found about six shootings per 100,000 arrests, which doubled in that first year of taser use. it came back near the baseline after that first year. but shooting stubble. one possibility is that with liberal use of tasers, confrontations escalated until lethal force was necessary. i will be the first to admit that this particular outcome we did not have the power to measure this outcome. only four cities provided data on officer injuries. nevertheless, we did not see a decrease in officer injuries. what is the summary of our research? there is a definitive risk for lethal arrhythmias. that rate is not 1 per 100,000. it is something much higher than that, and i would partly be in agreement with 3% to 5%. detectors are important. taser admits to not targeting the chest. there is an early increase in sudden deaths which may be preventable. then there is a low increase in risk. if you will allow me to editorialize a little bit as a physician, a researcher, and a taxpaying san