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February 3, 2011
Point of Law
Charlotte City and Police Settle with Civil Rights Groups Over Protest Tactics
The terms of the settlement force extensive revisions to CMPD directives, including a ban on the use of CS tear gas during protests and a ban on the use of chemical weapons to “kettle” or trap protesters.
July 23, 2021
Weapons
Less-Lethal Options
Law enforcement officers have plenty of less-lethal options to avoid a deadly force encounter, including light, chemical agents, conducted electrical weapons, projectile weapons, and launchable pepper projectiles. Read more in our March feature "Less-Lethal Weapon Options" and make sure to train with your mutual-aid agencies. Photos by Mark W. Clark and Amaury Murgado.
March 5, 2013
Special Units
Center for Domestic Preparedness Offers Toxic Agent Response Training
How long will it take before terrorists have weapons of mass destruction? The answer isn't clear. But preparing emergency response personnel to meet the threat head-on starts at the CDP's COBRATF—the Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological Training Facility in Anniston, Ala.
May 10, 2009
Weapons
Less-Lethal: Making Impact
The pressure on American law enforcement agencies to field tools that can subdue dangerous armed and unarmed individuals without using deadly force has never been greater than today. The answer according to many experts is less-lethal weapons that can be fired from a distance and effect subjects with blunt force or chemical irritant or both.
March 10, 2017
Weapons
In Search of the Star Trek Phaser
When it comes to capturing, subduing, and arresting bad guys, law enforcement currently has four types of less-lethal and less-than-lethal tools: physical restraint such as handcuffs and Ripp Hobble restraints, chemical weapons such as oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray, electrical shock devices such as Tasers, and impact tools such as batons and Asps.
February 28, 2005
Point of Law
Judge Holds Seattle Police in Contempt Over Use of Less-Lethal Weapons at Protests
The Monday ruling by Judge Richard Jones of the Western District of Washington in Seattle said the department had failed to prove that its use of pepper spray, Pepperballs, blast balls and paint balls during four 2020 protests was warranted.
December 9, 2020
Weapons
Assault Weapons Ban: A Cure That Could Kill
The proposed federal Assault Weapons Ban, which is supposed to curtail mass shootings, could be very bad for law enforcement officers. It may take the tools you need to protect the public from active shooters right out of your hands.
February 3, 2013
Patrol
Improvised Weapons
It's time to think outside the box-way outside the box.
September 30, 2003
Weapons
Take Down Tactical Handle
Mace Security
Mace Security International, Inc. returns to a core business of supplying less-lethal tactical munitions and weapons systems for law enforcement, corrections, and military markets.
January 30, 2015
Technology
IES Range 3000 XP4
October 31, 2003
Patrol
Police Unions Sue Boston Over Staffing Levels and Ban on OC at Protests
The Boston Police Superior Officers Federation and the Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society, accused the city council of “unlawful interference” with the department by legislating rather than negotiating the non-lethal weapons restriction over the bargaining table.
July 19, 2022
Patrol
ACLU Sues St. Louis Over Police Actions During Stockley Verdict Protests
The ACLU has filed suit against the city of St. Louis for what it calls "unlawful and unconstitutional" actions by police during protests of the Stockley verdict.
September 22, 2017
Weapons
Exclusive Interview: Mack Machowicz "FutureWeapons" Host, TREXPO West Keynote Speaker
You wouldn't know it if you saw Richard "Mack" Machowicz hosting his Discovery Channel show "FutureWeapons" or leading one of his martial arts classes at the Los Angeles-based Bukido Institute, but this former Navy SEAL studied to be a Zen Buddhist priest.
February 28, 2009
Patrol
Plan for Boston School Police to Carry Pepper Spray Halted
Interim Boston School Superintendent John McDonough announced Wednesday night that he was halting efforts to equip school police with pepper spray, saying it might “drive a wedge between our students and the school police.”
November 6, 2014
Special Units
"Clinton Tells of Techno-Terror Dangers Facing U.S."
April 30, 2000
Training
Bush Signs Homeland Security Appropriations Bill
President Bush recently signed into law the first appropriations bill under the newly created Department of Homeland Security.
October 9, 2003
Patrol
Judge Temporarily Bans Use of Less-Lethal Tools by Detroit Police on "Peaceful Protesters"
Police Chief James Craig responded to the order by U.S. District Judge Laurie J. Michelson by saying his officers only have used force when protesters weren't peaceful and that the ruling won't change how the department handles demonstrations.
September 7, 2020
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