The list of what an officer needs to carry on patrol is long; this creates not only a burden on his physical and duty belt real estate, but is also weighty on a department's budget. What may have once ...

Most every law enforcement agency understands the inherent value of making less-lethal force options available to their first responders. Less-Lethal force options are no longer found only in ...

AT NOON. THAT’S A LOOK AT USING LESS LETHAL FORCE. THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE EXPLORING DIFFERENT WAYS TO DEAL WITH CRITICAL INCIDENTS WITHOUT HAVING TO TURN TO DEADLY FORCE. KCRA 3’S ...

Chandler Crumblish Paine is a full-time mom and regular jogger who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s never owned a gun, but last year she became increasingly concerned about her safety, especially ...

As protesters against federal immigration raids have clashed in recent days with law enforcement, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Division sent out a warning: “Less Lethal munitions have ...

Opinion: UCPD is using less-than-lethal munitions to ‘frighten students into conformity’ An officer carrying a less-than-lethal weapon on campus is pictured. Columnist Michael Gallagher writes that ...

Launchers that fire soda can-size foam projectiles to subdue uncooperative individuals were successful in just more than a third of the encounters when they were deployed by the Los Angeles Police ...

Sergio Espejo didn’t come to Los Angeles with activism in mind. He planned to visit a friend as he had done many times in the past. Except, this summer the city was engulfed in protests, sparked by a ...

Around 2 p.m. on Jan. 10, Phoenix police officers surrounded a home in Maryvale, a neighborhood on the city’s west side. A lone, shirtless man sat on the roof after running from officers and ditching ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles began deploying "less lethal" munitions on Sunday as they clashed with crowds protesting federal immigration raids. "Less lethal" or ...

It is amazing that over time humans in general have never been at a loss to develop new and unique ways to inflict pain and damage to other humans. With millions of development dollars flowing into ...