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Less-Lethal Weapons 2014
From ECWs, to sprays, to impact munitions, these less-lethal devices provide options for gaining compliance from individuals and crowds.
October 7, 2014
Weapons
Death Raises Questions About Less-Lethal Weapons
The death of a man shot by police with a Taser stun gun in Philadelphia has caused civil liberties groups to question the safety of nonlethal weapons.
February 20, 2002
Training
Cross-Train Less-Lethal Weapons with Mutual-Aid Agencies
Whenever you arrive for mutual aid, you're the visiting team. Everyone has different ground rules. Another department arriving on mutual aid may have a more stringent or lackadaisical policy. Compare their policy for deployment to yours.
March 4, 2013
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
Blogs
Weapons
February 3, 2011
Command
PERF: Feds Should Issue Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapon Use During Unrest
PERF is recommending the Justice Department’s research arm, the National Institute of Justice, begin examining the use of less-lethal weapons and offer resources to law enforcement agencies about when and how to use the weapons.
February 25, 2022
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
Weapons
ACLU Wants Less-Lethal Weapon Ban in Texas Schools
The state's education commissioner should ban the use of Tasers, pepper spray, and other "less-than-lethal" weapons in all public schools, according to a request delivered this week from the ACLU and six other civil rights groups.
February 17, 2014
Weapons
Less-Lethal: The Guinea Pigs
A team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies tests less-lethal weapons and restraints, even letting themselves become the targets so that they can determine effectiveness.
April 12, 2019
Weapons
Some Dallas Officers to be Issued Less-Lethal Launchers and Sponge Rounds
Police booster group Safer Dallas Better Dallas announced Thursday that it plans to raise $250,000 to help pay for more than 100 launchers that shoot sponge rounds. The less-lethal weapons are meant to disarm and incapacitate someone from up to 100 feet away, police officials say.
April 29, 2016
Weapons
Judge Restricts LAPD Use of Less-Lethal Launchers During Demonstrations
In her order granting Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles's request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall noted an increase in reports of LAPD officers pushing, striking and firing less-lethal weapons on crowds of protesters, including media covering demonstrations, without a dispersal order being given.
May 12, 2021
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
Weapons
Less-Lethal Launchers: Reaching Out and Punching Someone
Today, police have a wide variety of tools and munitions for exerting less-lethal force on individuals at greater and greater distances. Extended range less-lethal impact weapons have been refined to the point that they are both accurate and extremely effective when deployed correctly.
March 14, 2011
Weapons
Air Bank and Transfer System
Bauer Compressors
Bauer Compressors' Air Bank and Transfer System (ABATS) is designed to store high-pressure compressed air and provide a safe filling process of the high-pressure air tanks commonly used on less-lethal weapons and launchers.
August 18, 2009
Weapons
Less Lethal Force
As technology has evolved, so too has the arsenal of weapons available to law enforcement. Firearms and batons have their place, but they aren't always the most effective tool for a given situation. Having a less-lethal option means you can possibly end a confrontation without lethal force.
September 17, 2009
Weapons
Less-Lethal: Mixed Blessings
It's well known that an offender who decides to resist arrest or attack a police officer must consider the possibility of being injured or even killed for doing so. What is unknown is how the proliferation of less-lethal weapons has changed and will change the way these men and women think.
November 26, 2014
Special Units
TASER International Acquires Taser Technologies Assets
Less-lethal weapons manufacturer and distributor TASER International has acquired all significant assets owned by Taser Technologies Inc. and Electronic Medical Research Laboratories, formerly known as Tasertron.
July 15, 2003
Technology
Special Report: Civil Unrest
POLICE
In this special report from POLICE Magazine, you'll learn about how response to civil disturbances can incorporate the use of less-lethal weapons, bicycles, body-worn cameras, and public order teams.
May 4, 2017
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