Omaha police recently agreed to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.
The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after the Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s plan to give officers the “Gloves” – or “generated low output voltage emitters”. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
The superintendent of Omaha public schools, Matthew Ray, on 18 August requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha police agreed two days
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