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 ...

Phoenix officers shot Turrell Clay with less-lethal weapons in January. Clay died hours later. The cause of his death is under investigation. Phoenix expanded use of less-lethal weapons in 2021 to ...

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 ...

On some occasions, Los Angeles Police Department officers purportedly targeted individuals who were clearly identifiable as members of the press,” ruled US District Judge Hernán D. Vera.

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.

Some Concerns About Less Lethal Weapons Nobody can object to the purported benefits and goals of LLW; however, like every complex topic, there is a sizeable gap between theory and operational reality.

The challenge in designing less-lethal weapons is balancing officer safety, stopping power, speed, range and flexibility. Police departments already have nonlethal alternatives, such as stun guns ...

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 ...

Portland police officers fires less lethal rounds through smoke while dispersing a crowd of about 150 people from Portland City Hall on August 25, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Crowds chanted in ...