Getting shot in the arm is not like on TV. You don't wind up at the end of the episode with your arm in a sling and completely healed by the following week. Hit a major artery, and the guy will bleed to death before the paramedics can arrive. Hit the bone and the doctors will likely have to amputate. Then you have a crippled kid suing the dept for $100M
The guy kept going after being zapped. He did not go down immediately. He was likely on drugs, and would have kept coming after a wounding shot, which would have required a follow-up in the head
Thanks for the info; I did not think of the arteries etc.....it really could be dangerous I guess, so the taser was the best option.