Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E.[1], which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
DHS said Tuesday that it was working on a response to an Associated Press inquiry and offered no immediate comment. Jeff Niklaus, the founder and CEO of Compliant Technologies, wrote in an email, “Unfortunately, we are unable to speak on this subject.”
The notice said the solicitation for a no-bid contract could be published as early as Friday.
really? ↩︎
Taser has covered up a lot of deaths. The majority of which the police officer in question didn’t expect. It’s a weapon that kills people frequently.
The body count is over 1000 at this point.
You can absolutely kill with a taser. I don’t believe I ever claimed otherwise, nor does that have a lot to do with the gloves in question.
I’d still love to see the guns replaced with these gloves. We all know that isn’t going to happen, though. They’ll just use the gloves to torture people on the ground while shooting bystanders now.
I see now. It seemed like you were comparing tasers to pool noodles.