[at-l] CASH STARVED FOREST SERVICE SPENDS $600, 000 TO BUY TASERS

[David Addleton]

I especially liked the "related links" at the bottom of the article!

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Read the Forest Service response to the PEER Freedom of Information Act
request <http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_foia_response.pdf>
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_foia_response.pdf

View the sole Forest Service justification
document<http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_justification.pdf>
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_justification.pdf

See the $600,000 invoice<http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_invoice.pdf>
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/07_4_12_taser_invoice.pdf

Compare the severe understaffing in the Forest Service law enforcement
program <http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/05_10_8_LEIinternalmemo.pdf>
http://www.peer.org/docs/fs/05_10_8_LEIinternalmemo.pdf

Look at the Amnesty International study on police Taser
deaths<http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engAMR511542007?open&of=eng-USA>

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engAMR511542007?open&of=eng-USA

Delve into the background of the Forest Service official who ordered the
tasers <http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=566>
http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=566

Check the Taser International press release announcing the Forest Service
order<http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=129937&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1053269&highlight=#>
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=129937&p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1053269&highlight=#
<http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=952#top>



On Dec 4, 2007 5:51 PM, Jan Lite <liteshoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> **A PEER release today...
>
>
>
> CASH STARVED FOREST SERVICE SPENDS $600,000 TO BUY TASERS
>
> — Devices Remain in Boxes Because Rangers Lack Training
>
> Washington, DC — The U.S. Forest Service has bought $600,000 worth of
> "Electronic Control Devices" without any training program, rules for use or
> even a written explanation as to why the devices are needed, according to
> agency records posted today by Public Employees for Environmental
> Responsibility (PEER). The devices, known as Tasers, are sitting in storage
> and cannot be issued because the agency has yet to develop a training
> course.
>
> Due to an intense fire season, the Forest Service is now staggering under
> a more than a quarter-billion dollar deficit, causing it to begin
> jettisoning core programs. For example, the agency lacks enough funds to
> draw up new timber sales. At the same time, the Forest Service law
> enforcement program is hobbled by more than 200 vacant positions, leaving
> only one officer to cover each 300,000 acres of National Forest and 750,000
> annual million visitors...
>
> More at:
> http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=952
>
>
>
>
> More:
>
> http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=952
>
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