UCLA student gets tazed

So it seems that a student of "Middle Eastern" descent got tazed in a UCLA computer lab. I am guessing by now there are probably a million different opinions supporting the student or the police officers floating around the web. From an objective perspective it is true that the situation unfolded rather unfortunately and probably both sides could have done things differently. It is possible that the student felt like he was being a victim of racial profiling. Being a macaca I too have experienced many such untoward incidents which have often made my blood boil. But then creating a ruckus is probably not the best way to handle a situation. Similarly tazing a tazed person for not being able to walk seems extraordinarily illogical to me. However this post is not to discuss the various arguments on who was right or wrong. I would like to divert your attention to what seems to me as an obvious lack of guidelines to the police officers for the use of tazers.

As a non-lethal weapon tazers have proven to be an asset for police force around the world. However there have been multiple cases where victims have complained for having being "unnecessarily" tazed by police officers. In my understanding, officers work around the clock under high stress situations. Without a proper guideline for the use of tazers, officers often inadvertently use them as quick solutions to problems which can otherwise be handled in a less painful but tedious manner. Consider this: If tazers were as lethal as firearms, would the officers have drawn their weapons to make the student leave the school facility? Most probably not. Most probably they would have "escorted" him out of the building which is what happens commonly and should have happened in UCLA too. I think a $100 fine for being a public nuisance is far more effective justice than tazing a student and then facing a high-profile brutality lawsuit.