Police Less Lethal News & Articles

• 50 ideas for a $20,000 police grant

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  Does your department keep a list of possible projects for grant-funding opportunities?

• In defense of the 12-gauge bean bag round

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  The 12-gauge bean bag is an extended range impact projectile system that has been proven safe and effective in numerous police officer/suspect encounters

• Impact projectiles: Shot placement in death and injury prevention

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  The single most critical aspect of safe and effective use of impact projectiles — shot placement — continues to be misunderstood by police trainers

• Tactical Tools: Compliance & incapacitation munitions

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  With the multitude of less lethal tools such as bean bag rounds available to SWAT, it can be difficult to determine how many different options a team needs

• Mitigating the danger of bean bags and other impact rounds

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  The answer is found not in the bean bag rounds themselves, but in the manner in which they are used

• How to buy less lethal

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  Less lethal weapons like bean bag shotguns have changed the way law enforcers respond to potential threats

• Spotlight: Reflex Protect Tactical gives LE a new gold standard in less-lethal spray products

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  The company's products give officers fast-acting and far-reaching low use-of-force options that are affordable for every agency

• 20 years of law enforcement milestones

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  Since Police1 launched in 1999 a lot has changed in policing – from new technologies to improved training to more sophisticated patrol vehicles and duty gear

• Video: Minn. cops use BolaWrap projectile to restrain, detain man

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  The less-lethal device discharges an eight-foot Kevlar tether that restricts an individual’s movement

• Axon CEO talks TASER weapons, police performance and transparency

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  Since 1993, Rick Smith has been a technology pioneer in law enforcement with a current goal of making the bullet obsolete by 2029

• Protest response: Key considerations to improve LE operations

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  Sound planning that outlines a response strategy, coupled with rules of engagement and quality less-lethal training, will enhance an agency’s response

• Bill would bar Mass. cops from firing at fleeing vehicles, limit use of tear gas, rubber bullets

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  The $5 million bill came out of a racial justice advisory group launched in June after the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

• 5 steps of riot prep: How to do crowd control correctly

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  When the world is watching and crowds are at their worst, make sure your officers are at their best

• 12 things every police department's civil unrest plan needs

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  Failure to plan is planning to fail, and that's glaringly evident when large-scale civil unrest breaks out

• A cop's guide to the supplies you will want on patrol

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  While there is no one way to do the job, this is a list of basics for every cop on the street

• Maine entrepreneur developing 'less lethal' projectiles, launcher system

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  After watching riot videos, Kurt Boeker was inspired to create a grenade launcher that shoots projectiles at a safe velocity regardless of the target's distance

• How to buy less lethal products (eBook)

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  Download this Police1 less lethal products buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• First look: The GLOVE use of force tool from Compliant Technologies

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  When the pads of the GLOVE come into direct contact with human skin, it generates pain compliance

• LAPD tests devices that use tethers to wrap suspects' bodies

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  The Batman-esque gadget is already in use in other Calif. counties

• Axon's Rick Smith envisions a world where cops no longer kill

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  "The End of Killing” paints a portrait of a future where LEOs are equipped with less-lethal weapons that are more effective than deadly weapons

• 16 winter weather tips for on and off-duty cops

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  Remember to prepare for the conditions you might find yourself outside in for several hours

• Was electronic control device use proper? You decide!

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  Consider a roundtable discussion of these two cases during roll call training

• 9 tips for constitutional TASER use

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  The courts have been issuing important rulings that influence the way these tools are used by police

• Texas SWAT team deploys new tool that lassoes suspects

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  The device wraps around a suspect's arms or legs and renders the suspect temporarily incapable of free movement

• Eighth Circuit ruling: Multiple TASER use justified to stop violently resisting suspect

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  After a man who viciously attacked his girlfriend died following a violent struggle with three officers, an excessive force lawsuit is brought against the officers

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