ICE Is Using Shock Gloves. Local Police Shouldn’t, a Policing Expert Says.

ICE is using shock gloves. Local police shouldn’t, a policing expert says.

Municipal agencies should scrutinize the technology’s capabilities, limitations and costs before following ICE’s lead in using it, a criminal justice professor and former police officer says.

This Police Chief Has Been Using Shock Gloves On Criminals For Years. Now, ICE Wants A Try.

For roughly two years, the small-town police department in Sahuarita, Arizona, has been using electric shock gloves to control uncooperative subjects. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is set to spend up to $20 million on thousands of the gloves amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notice. “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not…