The Taser is one of the default items of a Police Officer. It is a non-lethal weapon that holds an electrical charge to stun prisoners and criminals.

Overview

The Taser fires an electric bolt, which if it hits a guilty prisoner or a criminal, ragdolls criminals and unequips their currenly held out item. This bolt travels instantaneously to where it was aimed, but only with limited range, being preferably used at close range to closer-medium range. If it manages to hit a guilty prisoner or criminal, it will ragdoll them for 2 entire seconds. Once the stun time is over, the criminal gets up and can move again.

The Taser's reload varies depending on if it missed or had hit a target. If a Taser shot misses or does not reach the target, the reload speed is 3.5 seconds long. If the Taser shot does hit a target, it's reload speed is 10 seconds long.

Taser's primary function is to get closer to the criminal when stunned by the Taser, meant to secure an arrest or close distance on the target. The Taser ragdolls any guilty prisoners, meaning the player can check if a prisoner can be arrested or not by simply shooting a Taser at them.

When the cop holds out their Taser, the nearest criminal's avatar is covered in a bright yellow circle with an electric bolt pictogram, alongside with a dashed line going from the cop's torso, to the torso of the criminal. This yellow "aura" shows at a decent distance, relative to where the Taser can hit at its maximum range possible. This is a double sided advantage for both teams. The criminal knows whenever a cop is close and from which way the cop is coming from, and at the same time the cop knows the range for their Taser to hit.

Strategies

• Tasers are by far the most reliant ways to get and secure arrests. The seconds that disable the target's movement can easily allow the cop to get closer and arrest them with their handcuffs.
• Try and use the Taser as much as you can. You are not majorly punished for missing a shot, as the quick 3.5 seconds can allow the Taser to be used more often. Do keep in mind, arresting a group of criminals can be harder due to the 10 second reload if hitting a criminal.
• If you miss a Taser shot, shoot the criminal to lower their health, as lower health makes them move slower on foot. Combine this with the Taser and its easier to stun a slow moving criminal then a full health target.
• When you stun a criminal with the Taser, don't just walk over to the criminal with your cuffs out. Its much smarter to utilize the 3 second ragdoll as an opportunity to shoot the criminal until they are low health. This is commonly done to criminals who are tased yet are too far away for the cop to arrest them. Pistol, Shotgun or the Revolver can be used to quickly drain the criminal's health when on the ground.
• When you stun a criminal with the Taser, make use of your roll ability to close more distance then what you normally would.
• If a criminal ragdolls by falling off a cliff or a roof, you can stack the ragdoll by tasing them when they are lying on the ground to make the stun longer.

Targets

Gallery

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The current images of the Taser.

The revamped Taser model.

The inventory icon of the Taser.

The outdated images of the Taser.

The old Taser model.

The old 3D view of the Taser.

The old inventory icon of the Taser.

Trivia

• On October 3rd, 2022, the Taser was revamped with a new design and effects, new target effect, and reload progress indicators.
• In real life, it is possible to kill someone with a charge of electricity from a taser. In Jailbreak, however, the taser does no damage, as it just stuns players. In real life, the person stunned will be down for minutes, maybe even hours. In addition, real-life tasers could sometimes cause the victim to enter cardiac arrest, and perhaps even kill them.
• The Taser was the Laser Electrocutor gear item in the Roblox catalog, which used to have the name "Taser," just like in Jailbreak. The same model is used in Prison Life. The Taser does not stun any of the Jailbreak NPCs, including The VP, Bandits, or stationary NPCs like badcc at the Donut Shop or asimo3089 at the Gas Station.
• This is 1 of 6 items that are exclusive to the Police, the others being Handcuffs, Road Spikes, SWAT Phone, SWAT Attire, and the Riot Shield.
• There is a glitch where a prisoner can spawn in with the Taser and Handcuffs, after switching from the police team to the prisoner team.
• The Taser can automatically force criminals to hop out and ragdoll out of vehicles that don't have any car protection around them, like the Dirtbike, Patrol or the Volt, assuming if you land the Taser shot.
• A Taser can be used on players sitting on a chair; they will still ragdoll just like if they were standing.
• Criminals/Prisoners could have obtained a taser by being a Police Officer and placing the taser in their respective cell's Bed Drawer, but now Tasers, along with other police-exclusive items and keycards, cannot be placed in bed drawers.
• Tased players will follow the laws of physics, meaning they will move down slopes unwillingly.
• The taser will not work on innocent prisoners, however, it will work on guilty prisoners. This makes the taser a pseudo-guilt detector.
• In the March 2020 Update, the crosshair was missing and it had to be aimed with the mouse cursor. This was patched in the Flintlock Bonus Update.
  • Despite having a crosshair, it does not have the aiming system found in guns.
• If a criminal/prisoner is too far away, the taser won’t stun the criminal/prisoner.
• The taser had arguably the worst accuracy of all weapons in the game.
  • When the Taser was revamped, this issue was mostly fixed.
• In Miscellaneous Update 111, the Taser and Handcuffs gained the ability to use camera lock, just like guns.
• If the player puts away and takes out the Taser while it is reloading, the taser will instantaneously reload. the same applies to other guns but is more noticeable in weapons with a slow reload speed, like the Forcefield Launcher.

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