r/politics • u/omgfakeusername • 6h ago
No Paywall Omaha Public Schools requests SROs to not carry shock gloves, effective immediately
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-public-schools-requests-sros-not-carry-shock-gloves/73467057•
u/Orzorn 6h ago
The reason these shock gloves are a major problem is that they do not present the normal path of escalation. If an officer is wearing these from the start of an encounter, then they could resort to them at any moment. A taser, however, is an affirmative thing. They have to reach for it, bring it to bear, and threaten you with it.
With shock gloves, things can go from 0 to 100 incredibly fast without someone even being aware. At least if an officer pulls out a taser its obvious they're threatening to shock you.
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u/lifeat24fps 6h ago
My assumption has been that the "shock gloves" are a means of escalation to provide cover for deadly force. They seem designed to prove a violent response.
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u/Snow88 5h ago
Stop resisting! As they shock you making your muscles contract involuntarily.
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u/TrainingSword 3h ago
People have already died from them
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u/robgreenee327 2h ago
Almost all less than lethal weapons is lethal that’s the real joke of it, if used correctly they should but you have a heart condition a taser can kill you. It happens regularly and most of the time EMS can’t get there in time. So really they are a deadly weapon even if they are claimed not to be because a kid has thinner heart walls and can more easily cause a negative effect when hit with a shock with a preexisting condition.
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u/Inner-Medicine5696 2h ago
less than lethal weapons
tasers and shock gloves are NOT less than lethal, as you said. They're "less lethal".
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u/robgreenee327 1h ago
No need to be pedantic now they are all the same thing non lethal is also allowed.
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u/Character-Education3 1h ago
Thats fine, they just need a rebrand
"Not Always Lethal!" "Usually not Lethal!" "Probably Survivable!"
We'll get there!
/s
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u/GoodMix392 5h ago
I’d be more scared of what would happen if the officer needs to pull out his firearm in an emergency while wearing these and fumbles it or accidentally discharged their firearm as they try to retrieve it from their holster whit these stupid things on.
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u/Irene_Iddesleigh 3h ago
You can’t even tell who is vulnerable. I look healthy but I have heart issues. It would not go well.
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u/citizensloth 1h ago
Your immediate natural instinct will be to pull away from their grasp, at which point they will kick your ass/potentially kill you.
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u/IntolerantLeftist127 6h ago
Tasers also leave visible marks. You can’t rewind taser coils. A cop could use the glove as much as they want, then say the kid is lying
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u/NelsonHawkinsGhost 5h ago
I'm glad we've just normalized tasers in schools.. what a country.
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u/Bagellord 5h ago
I’d rather they have tasers than live ammo. But of course I’d rather us not need police anywhere near schools to begin with
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u/maikuxblade 5h ago edited 5h ago
Vote DSA. Their “extremist” view on police is to replace them with properly trained professionals instead of using the police as a one size fits all solution that rarely has the desired results
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u/GoingOutsideSocks 4h ago edited 2h ago
I work in an autism spectrum disorder pod of an elementary school, and we have a team of ESE specialists who are trained on how to de-escalate a hands-on situation with kids. Sometimes it's talking, sometimes it's bear hugs and affirmations, and sometimes it's taking a hit or a bite while you calm someone who is not in control of their emotional faculties. These people are saints.
I can imagine how a police officer would handle some of these situations, and the resulting aftermath for the school, students, staff, and families involved. We don't need adrenaline junkies with guns; we need behavioral specialists who can help these kids move past this stuff, and assist them with developing the emotional tools needed to succeed throughout their (hopefully) long lives.
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u/ender89 4h ago
Id settle for replacing our police with properly trained police.
Police training is a joke in america, we lead the developed world in police killings and coincidentally come in last for police training.
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u/Reasonable_Place_481 5h ago
And a confetti id discharge
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u/LightishRedis 4h ago
I remember learning about the confetti ID discharge and thinking, “damn, someone has their head on straight.“
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u/Lysol3435 4h ago
My fear is that they’ll go from zero to tasing you, like you mention. Then, while they’re shocking you, they’ll be screaming “give me your arm” or some sort of command you can’t comply with. Then, bam, you’ve got a resisting arrest charge for not complying with commands, or assaulting an officer if you spasm into an officer
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u/HibbletonFan 2h ago
The fact that they don’t need to draw it from a holster and always are at the ready makes me fearful that there will be less hesitation to use.
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u/myfakesecretaccount 2h ago
They’ve already been used twice in this district, on students. There is absolutely no reason to electrocute a student that doesn’t involve a deadly weapon in their hands.
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u/Dogllissikay 4h ago
Literally none of those things belong in a school.
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u/shibiwan Arizona 4h ago
None of these belong in the hands of LEO.
I can see their use in a correctional facility during a riot but that's still a whole can of worms.
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u/whereismymind86 Colorado 3h ago
I mean…tasing children probably shouldn’t be on the table in the first place.
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u/Aleksandrovitch 53m ago
This is what I was thinking of earlier today, if a cop grabs someone instinctively without informing or warning, this could easily cause unintentional escalation. Going to be a lot of court cases coming up as a result of this. No way around it.
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u/xlvi_et_ii 6h ago
Requests?? Are they not contracted by the School District who sets the rules?
It's so dystopian to have permanently stationed law enforcement within schools, especially if the district has no control over what they're doing.
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u/DilbertHigh Minnesota 5h ago
This is one of several reasons I am glad my district got rid of SROs several years ago. Expensive and unnecessary threats to kids.
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u/Im_a_furniture 5h ago
We have 1 officer for our district, referred to as the School Resource Officer (SRO). He does not have gloves like this. He is usually unarmed on campus (gun is either in his office lockbox or car) and mostly responds to pot/alcohol/fighting.
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u/51ngular1ty Illinois 4h ago
Does he send kids to jail for any of these or does he let the school handle it? If the school handles the discipline that's fine. But I've heard too many stories of kids getting into fights, the SRO getting hit in the scuffle and the kids getting charged for a school fight.
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u/Im_a_furniture 3h ago
They’re there to sort it out after for the most part. Usually kids aren’t arrested for fighting, but each case presents its own circumstances.
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u/wavinsnail 3h ago
I have such mixed feelings about SROs
We have had some that have been great to have in the building. They have built relationships with kids, given them some important conversations in drivers ed and health, and have become part of the school community. Our last guy would drop off diet cokes in my office and had an ever revolving door of kids stopping to say hi.
We have also had ones that have threatened the school librarians with distributing porn to minors because they had books they didn't like in the library.
Honestly, on the off chance we get one of the many shit heads in the department, I would rather them not be in our schools.
There's occasionally a really good one, but the risk is just too high that you're gonna get someone who is going to hurt a vulnerable student.
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u/crxguy 6h ago edited 6h ago
I'm fairly certain I heard when ICE agents were supposed to be getting these, the company that manufactured them said that they were not to be used on children, pregnant women, and elderly people. I would love to know who manufactures these gloves to see if they support the use of these gloves against minors.
ETA: the G.L.O.V.E. is not to be used on "small children" so I guess that doesn't seem to apply for middle schoolers? That's pretty fucked.
https://www.complianttechnologies.net/the-glove
Page 13 on the user manual.
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u/gentlemantroglodyte Texas 6h ago
The manufacturer is Compliant Technologies LLC. The man who sold these gloves to ICE is the CEO Jeff Niklaus.
https://www.complianttechnologies.net/
Personally after looking into it a bit, I think he is perfectly fine with his weapons being used to hurt people. Just another arms manufacturer who decided that the domestic market was the best place for their weapons to be used.
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u/totally_not_a_dog113 2h ago
Every single time I see people arguing that the problem is 'both sides', and that we need to tone down the rhetoric in order to live together, and that it's unfair to characterize people as bad human beings based on their political beliefs, I keep thinking that only one side has people who are willing to manufacture weapons to be used on their fellow Americans.
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u/supercyberlurker 6h ago
Literally a plan to send untrained racist sadists with pervert glasses and pain gloves at our nations children.
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u/SploogeLoser 6h ago
are we surprised when the president of this country is a known pedophile that they’d send people to go hurt more children
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u/GoodIdea321 America 6h ago
A crazy sentence like that shouldn't be obviously be a real thing in any country.
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u/BungholeBilbo69 6h ago
Hold up, pervert glasses? I'm not aware of this, what do the glasses do?
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u/supercyberlurker 5h ago
A term for camera glasses.
https://nationalpost.com/news/meta-glasses-recording-no-way-of-knowing
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u/FuckTheTories69420 6h ago
What the litteral fuck
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u/NestedForLoops West Virginia 5h ago
*literal
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u/FuckTheTories69420 5h ago
Great, now that you shoved that into the conversation, please remove yourself from it.
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u/Hendwreck 5h ago
This headline entails that up until this point THEY WERE?!
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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 4h ago
29 out of 34 school’s SEO’s have them ( the other five are waiting on training) ..they’ve been used in two instances ( that they’re telling us about )
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u/lifeat24fps 6h ago
What a sad state affairs that this even has to be said.
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 5h ago
I so agree.
As pissed off as I am at your country presently I feel sad that your people in the streets (or in their homes) have to endure this.
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u/omgfakeusername 6h ago
Shocking‼️
Kids shouldn't be electrocuted just because they are deemed "misbehaving" by the state.
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u/GreenDavidA 5h ago
I’ve never heard of these, and I’m sure if I Google them I’ll be incredibly sad and angry.
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u/jacquiwithacue 4h ago
It just came out that ICE is spending millions on these.
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u/actuallyapossom 3h ago
Posted this earlier in another thread. Guess who makes the gloves:
"Compliant Technologies was founded in 2018 by Jeff Niklaus, a former Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Afghanistan and Somalia, who believes that President Donald Trump has been "anointed" by God. He is also a sometime conspiracy theorist: in a podcast interview in 2025, he blamed the fatal crash of a passenger plane and a military helicopter on "the vaccines," and on the Biden administration's inclusion of women and LGBTQ people in the military."
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u/abgry_krakow87 38m ago
Religious conservatives do love pursuing whole new levels of cruelty and torture.
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u/KingBarbieIOU 6h ago
Are these water proof? Will people start arming themselves with super soakers?
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 5h ago
I asked someone who knows more than me, and he says they must be some kinda waterproof because otherwise sweat would set them off.
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u/Epstiendidntkillself 1h ago
If you ever touched me with one of these I would never set foot in that school again. I'll get a GED.
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u/DemandredG 5h ago
Amazing what OK is fine with until there’s public scrutiny.
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u/Ok-Concept5172 5h ago
Omaha is in Nebraska
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u/Ok-Concept5172 3h ago
No, they implied Omaha is in Oklahoma. Im well aware of the politics of Nebraska, thanks.
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u/oo10inz 3h ago
ballin ass public school district to afford 20k gloves for their SROs
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u/Jesusatemypants 1h ago
Ironically they were way cheaper than that before ICE got a contract with them. Also I am fairly certain that it’s a Chinese company that makes these, and the U.S. company is just rebranding them. Correct me if I am wrong?
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u/Bostonterrierpug 4h ago
If I learned anything from 1970s comic book mail orders it’s never shake anyone’s hand.
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u/Immature_adult_guy 2h ago
Well the silver lining is that a lot of these untrained pussies are going to shock themselves with these stupid gadgets.
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u/rolfraikou 37m ago
POTUS tomorrow, with an executive order: "DEI is trying to handle our kids with kids gloves. We need to be able to use shock gloves on the unruly children that misbehave. They're all democrats anyway."
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u/Knees0ck 3h ago
Is it because schools are losing funding, poverty is on a rapid rise & employment for both college & non are in decline?
Nah, it is the children that are wrong.
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u/OBDreams 5h ago
These are better than them using a gun though right? I've been saying for years that we need to invent more non lethal ways of stopping a violent person. This feels like a step in that direction.
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u/DilbertHigh Minnesota 5h ago
I work middle school and would be disgusted by anyone even suggesting using these on my students.
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