Police Less Lethal News & Articles

• Chief Don De Lucca on the BolaWrap

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  Find out how this remote restraint device can aid in safely restraining resistant subjects

• Video: Ohio officers use BolaWRAP to prevent ‘suicide by cop’ attempt

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  Afterward, the man thanked the officers: “I’m glad that whatever you just did, you did”

• Law enforcement firearms developer FN America releases new less lethal launcher

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  FN says the new model has improved service life and accuracy

• How this new gel/antidote combo provides a better less-lethal tool

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  Reflex Protect Presidia Gel doesn’t spread once sprayed, and its effects can be easily reversed once compliance is achieved for quicker relief to the suspect and a quicker return to duty for the officer

• 3 reasons officers need more less-lethal options

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  Interactions with suspects can go from calm to violent within seconds, and officers need multiple tools to respond to varying levels of non-compliance

• Q&A: How this less-lethal gel and antidote combo gives cops a safer, more effective tool

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  A detective and a doctor explain why Presidia Gel and Reflex Remove close the gap when it comes to self-defense and why they both carry it on the job

• ‘Superhailer’ launches sound projection tool for civil unrest, crowd control

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  The device can direct sounds and messages up to 800 feet away while maintaining a safe decibel level, according to the company

• 5 things to know about the BolaWRAP

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  This device is designed to give police officers a less-lethal option that isn't based on pain compliance

• Commander Sid Heal on why the concepts of less lethal force are more important than the tools

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  “For the vast majority of our critics, everything they learned about law enforcement they learned from watching TV”

• Book excerpt: Concepts of Nonlethal Force: Understanding Force from Shouting to Shooting

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  Exploring the ever-growing array of options and implements that promise to restore order to out-of-control situations

• 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

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