why aren’t tranquilizer guns used on humans during stand-offs

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Like, instead of tasers, live ammunition, etc, why isn’t there some sort of investment in making tranquilizer guns to incapacitate criminals?

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Safe and rapid knock out darts don’t actually exist in the real world.
It takes several minutes for a dart to knock out an animal.
In that time a human can do a lot of damage.

In addition, the amount of tranquilizer has to be precisely figured out, too much and it will kill the person, too little and it won’t do anything but make them woozy.
Animals sometimes die despite our best efforts.

There’s a reason why they often need a doctor dedicated to just knocking someone out.

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