The NYPD has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits over the last ten years for incidents involving the use of Tasers, many of them resulting in payouts of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A 65-year-old, knife-wielding man killed by NYPD officers in Queens shrugged off a blast from a taser and turned toward a group of people before he was fatally shot in the back, body-worn camera ...