ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves ...
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ICE plans gloves delivering painful electric shocksA DHS notice cites up to US$20 million for thousands of devices that could be purchased by March.
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- ICE plans to spend up to US$20 million by March on thousands of the devices, while a no-bid solicitation could be published as early as Friday.
- Known as the G.L.O.V.E., the devices are made by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky, and have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
- The manufacturer says the gloves are activated by a switch and must be applied directly to the skin, while warning against using them as punishment or on children, pregnant women, elderly people or people with disabilities.
- Civil rights advocates questioned the need for and proper use of the devices by ICE, while the manufacturer requires users to complete training and recertify every two years.
ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do. Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public.— Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the American Civil Liberties Union, commenting on ICE plans.
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