As Toronto Police prepare a request to add another 170 Tasers to their roster, Global News investigates just how these "less lethal" weapons are being used -- and who's getting Tasered.

Global News obtained incident reports from all Toronto Police use of Tasers in 2013 and the first half of 2014. Here's what we found.

Police encounter people with mental illness more than ever. How do you make them better at it?

If you're perfectly healthy and sober, being Tasered will probably hurt a lot for five seconds but leave you otherwise unscathed. If you aren't, we really don't know.

Rondi McFarlane was sitting under a bridge holding a knife when she was Tasered. Now she plans to help train cops to deal better with situations like hers.