Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.
If the police torture you, you have some voice. You can at least try to find justice. If they kill you, you have none. You’re dead. The gloves are still better.
What we have seen with Tasers (the company is Axon now and they are doing Flock camera things too) is that the line didn’t noticeably move. The cops still shoot as much as they want and use tasers mostly for “compliance” and laziness. Giving cops shock gloves won’t lower shootings, they will only increase torture. Thought exercise. Person outside of touch range, gun or gloves? Next scenario: cop turns on gloves, grabs civilian, and starts yelling “stop resisting”.
Taser/Axon coined the pseudoscientific term “exited delirium” as a cover for cops killing civilians with their tasers. This was cops tasing people for extended periods of time, even after handcuffed, and using tasers when they were not needed.
This is a very good point. There was a well publicized event in chicago where a kid had a knife and was surrounded by police and their cruisers and was shot. So even with tons of back and a lot of distance and completely surrounding him. They could not coordinate moving forward with a tazer to arrest him rather than shooting him. When he was armed with a knife and a tazer could keep them well out of arms reach.
I disagree. By condoning the gloves and trying to say they are better than something else we just slide further toward the time when they begin to kill us for having a voice.
Nah, no gloves at all is even better.