Omaha police agreed this week 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’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.
Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.
For the self proclaimed Land of the Free, the US has always had this dark authoritarian streak, but I’m frankly aghast at the dystopian death spiral unravelling before my eyes. You could see it coming for a long time, but it still feels sudden.
We’re going on 1 decade+ of it “feeling like 1939”