According to the Gazette, London may be considering a moratorium on the use of tasers by the cops:

“I didn’t want it on my conscience that I hadn’t spoken out about the risk that tasers pose to human life,” Ward 11 councillor David Winninger said. “I thought in my position of council I would bring forward a motion to urge the Police Services Board to put a moratorium on taser use.”

Winninger is the one councilor that is proposing the moratorium, but at least the idea is entering the public debate. Unfortunately, even if the rest of the councilors agree, a vote for a moratorium will have no effect on the cops’ use of tasers in London:

London’s City Council does not have the power to change Police Services Board policy, and so even if the motion passes, the London Police Service may still use the devices.

At least a move forward. Nothing better than one hand of government fighting the other.