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.
From my experience, the cop in the school is probably the most guilty person. Back when I was in high school, the cop never stopped a single fight or a single theft. He did target the non-white kids, confiscate their weed, and then sell it to the white preppy kids. When the precinct bought a mustang for him (why…) he decided to “showoff” and then went speeding down the middle lane (the turn lane) when school got out but didn’t slow down in time so when he got to the corner (tight curve, probably thought the car would magically handle it) he hit sand (it was early spring, so sand due to snow) and lost control, jumped the curb and crashed it into a fence and sat there in shame as students he almost hit drove by. He was just a few cars away from me when it happened, I got to watch it firsthand.
School was less safe, legitimately, because there was a cop on site.