Gandhi*

“The device is not effective through clothing or hair and can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy.”

Black bloc for protesting is going to become more popular.

From anear, too.

This is nothing new for US

Look up Guantanamo Bay and Abu Gharib

People get what they voted for.

Feel free to recreate and calibrate and guarantee safe shock levels to offer it cheaper if that fits your morals

Sounds pretty cheap to me for such a niche product. How many electric glove suppliers (and buyers) do you think there are?

Do these really need to be sold as pairs? I suspect one GLOVE would be adequate?

Just add “tactical” to any product you make and you can charge 40% extra.

> I want the police to have a lot of options available to them, to avoid the “everything looks like a nail” problem.

That was the idea behind tasers - that they'd reduce use of guns.

In reality, they now get used in scenarios where less (or no) force used to be more normal. Why learn de-escalation techniques when you can just shoot a taser?

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/police-use-force-impact-...

> A critical research question is whether officers can become too reliant on CEDs. During interviews with officers and trainers, the researchers heard comments that hinted at a "lazy cop syndrome." Some officers may turn to a CED too early in an encounter and may rely on a CED rather than on their conflict resolution skills or even on hands-on applications.

That's because they are extraordinarily suitable as covert torture devices. When government officials use them to inflict pain, they do not leave physical evidence and the only video evidence from filming the interaction is how long hands were on the detainee.

With a little imagination, anything can be misused and abused.

That's already common practice in police (and military) training. (For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVQ_k6d9J0)

It's a little different when it's your buddies testing them out versus torturing a suspect.

Censorship BS? This is being discussed in every social forum in the country. Divisive topics == divisive attitudes, and in exchange for peace some of us are fine with not talking about some shit in some places.

Dang and team are walking a fine line - telling them to get stuffed is inappropriate and illustrative of why this is a problem in the first place.

edit: Ohhhhhhh the /u is donkey_brains; did I take the troll bait? jfc I hate this timeline

They're torture devices.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ice-shock-glove...

> In 2022, Assistant Chief Adam Glueck, of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, purchased electric shock gloves for his officers after learning about them at a trade show. And his employees, he said, couldn’t get enough of them. “If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands,” Glueck joked on a podcast interview a couple of years later. “They’ve grown really attached.”

> The shock gloves, he went on to explain, allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that could look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits.

> “In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But “the glove is low optic, and it looks better on video, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”

Not really, because the whole idea is to have it used in discrete manner, a taser will be obvious and mostly recorded and shared online, plus once used there’s some time needed to reuse it again (the taser gun), those on the other hand, are discrete and can be used on multiple people quickly. The forced military draft will be “fun” to watch in the US!