No doubt you are right but if I had to be the subject, I would prefer the gloves to a taser. The ideal would be Spock's nerve pinch. The trouble with any device is that it is used gratuitously as the murders of Good and Pretti showed with guns.
You also don't want to give dangerous hardware to people who kinda like wearing dangerous hardware. The very last to be hired for police work should be military veterans. They are usually the first hired not surprisingly since policing in America is very closely modeled on the military.
For that matter, America has a deeply flawed idea of what it is to be a male, but I won't get started on that.
Indeed: It's all about enforcing absolute compliance, and that's another reason why these gloves should not be used, in schools or on American streets.
Especially in schools...although, when we lived in southern states, I had to sign forms saying they could suspend my kids for 2 weeks if I said they were not allowed to paddle them.....fucking insane
Looks like preparation for the Midterms being fucked with to me. Time for Civil War if that happens. We here in Minnesota still dealing with ICE. The cameras have just gone away. Community is Resistance!!! And every kindness matters. Voter fraud is as mythical as a unicorn. Musk and Russia manipulated both times TrumPUS "won". Check your voter registration and encourage others. I am a Permanent Absentee Voter in the Great State of Minnesota. We kicked GOP ass. That disgusting pillow guy didn't stand a chance! Ha! And do NOT buy into the spin being spun on "communists" and "socialists" as scare tactics. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.
This article reminds me of an essay from years ago that explained that democracies (rather than dictatorships) are the real innovators when it comes to new torture techniques - particularly ones that leave no marks and don't require medical care afterwards.
They won't care as they are really just pro-birth anyway....and obviously haven't cared about any women or children ever....except to control them and use them as servants and breeding machines.
It's all about making police violence and brutality look better.
Both diabolical and desperate.
And now 3 dead while in ICE custody in NJ. These Brownshirts need to be held accountable.
May they still be abolished... And DHS too.
No doubt you are right but if I had to be the subject, I would prefer the gloves to a taser. The ideal would be Spock's nerve pinch. The trouble with any device is that it is used gratuitously as the murders of Good and Pretti showed with guns.
You also don't want to give dangerous hardware to people who kinda like wearing dangerous hardware. The very last to be hired for police work should be military veterans. They are usually the first hired not surprisingly since policing in America is very closely modeled on the military.
For that matter, America has a deeply flawed idea of what it is to be a male, but I won't get started on that.
"Compliant Technologies" is a bone-chilling name for that company
Indeed: It's all about enforcing absolute compliance, and that's another reason why these gloves should not be used, in schools or on American streets.
I thought the gloves were GOING to come to schools. Apparently, they're already in schools, I believe in Memphis.
also in prisons. ICE is the first time a federal law enforcement agency is acquiring them though
yes, but like MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS are a bit different than prison!
My bad, Omaha... https://www.3newsnow.com/central-omaha/opd-says-its-school-resource-officers-have-shock-gloves-at-29-schools-and-theyve-been-used-twice-on-students
Damn.
Thanks for acknowledging our hard work. The Grey Panthers are everywhere.
These shock gloves seem like a violation of the 8th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
it's basically the same as a taser which they've been using forever.
Especially in schools...although, when we lived in southern states, I had to sign forms saying they could suspend my kids for 2 weeks if I said they were not allowed to paddle them.....fucking insane
Excellent reporting. We need more of this kind of journalism.
Hey thanks !
The Blue Meanies had a Glove. Now the real life ones do as well.
gaslighting gloves
only cowards would use something like that
Looks like preparation for the Midterms being fucked with to me. Time for Civil War if that happens. We here in Minnesota still dealing with ICE. The cameras have just gone away. Community is Resistance!!! And every kindness matters. Voter fraud is as mythical as a unicorn. Musk and Russia manipulated both times TrumPUS "won". Check your voter registration and encourage others. I am a Permanent Absentee Voter in the Great State of Minnesota. We kicked GOP ass. That disgusting pillow guy didn't stand a chance! Ha! And do NOT buy into the spin being spun on "communists" and "socialists" as scare tactics. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.
In other words, they are anticipating more resistance over the next few months and are trying to up their intimidation factor. Fuck 'em.
Agreed.
On the money!
This article reminds me of an essay from years ago that explained that democracies (rather than dictatorships) are the real innovators when it comes to new torture techniques - particularly ones that leave no marks and don't require medical care afterwards.
Let’s see what happens the first time they use them on a pregnant woman and she miscarries. What will the pro-life Republicans say, then?
I'm thinking somewhat along the same lines. Epileptics, people with pacemakers, hearing aids...
They won't care as they are really just pro-birth anyway....and obviously haven't cared about any women or children ever....except to control them and use them as servants and breeding machines.