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.
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.