Pitched as a safer way to subdue suspects, the less-lethal weapons used by Phoenix police can actually be deadly.

Protesters, advocates and attorneys say L.A law enforcement uses less-lethal weapons frequently and unnecessarily, causing ...

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 ...

The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office must give the public details about military equipment it owns and uses, including Humvees ...

Meanwhile, the technology and tactics of less-lethal weapons have substantially changed. Its review could eventually lead to another congress of police executives and union leaders, who produced a ...

Less lethal is a classification of weapons designed to bridge the gap between traditional batons and firearms. Historically, these options have been in the shadows of American law enforcement ...

These weapons – often described as “less lethal,” “less-than-lethal” or “non-lethal” – are those “explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate … while minimizing ...

“The court finds that plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of irreparable injury.” Marshall ordered the LAPD to fire from distances not less than five feet from protesters and to not aim their weapons ...

The forum’s 45-page report endorses less-lethal arms as a sometimes controversial part of the law enforcement toolkit and emphasizes that the weapons “often do not work as desired.” ...

But the research on the lethality of "less-lethal" weapons is pretty hard to come by. In 2017 a review of the available literature on the subject was published in the medical journal BMJ Open.

From Other Nonprofit Media Less-lethal weapons blind, maim and kill. Victims say enough is enough. by Donovan Slack, Dennis Wagner, Kevin McCoy and Jay Hancock 07/30/2020 ...