Knox Police using crowdfunding to buy new tasers
By: Melissa Hudson
Posted: Aug 4, 2017 5:32 PM EDT | Updated: Aug 4, 2017 7:49 PM EDT

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KNOX, Ind. -- The Knox Police Department has started a GoFundMe account to raise $6,000 for new non-lethal tasers.
Chief Harold Smith said the current tasers are more than a decade old making them hard or close to impossible to fix when they break.
Chief Smith says there just isn't money in the budget for new tasers.
A local law firm, Sweeney-Julian, will match the funds raised in the crowdfunding effort.
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