The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work
With the revelation that ICE will spend up to $20 million by March on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to subdue an individual, according to a notice published earlier this week by the Department of Homeland Security, it's worth looking at how this apparel, designated as a non-lethal tool for law enforcement, actually works.
These shock gloves go by the unsubtle acronym of GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies, based in Lexington, Kentucky. The GLOVE, previously used in jails and police departments in the US, looks and functions like a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate an electrical mode.
Classified as a CD3 (Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device), the gloves don't work like stun guns or Tasers, which shoot out probes or use high voltages to cause neuromuscular incapacitation that overrides the central nervous system. Instead,...
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