Police face backlash for using electric shock gloves in Nebraska schools
- Omaha Police agreed to stop carrying electric shock gloves in public schools following community outcry, but the suburban Bellevue Police Department confirmed its officers will continue using the devices.
- Known as Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters, the devices deliver 324 to 362 volts, which manufacturer Compliant Technologies describes as a tool for "conductive distraction and de-escalation."
- Nora Wessel, a senior at Omaha Central High School, warned that the weapons create a "barrier for our students to turn to resource officers when needed."
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed plans for a potential $20 million contract to equip agents with the gloves, intensifying the debate over the technology.
- Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, warned that "less than lethal doesn't mean low risk," as debate centers on whether the technology fits modern expectations for transparency.
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Red state schools demand police ditch electric-shock gloves used on students
The largest school district in Nebraska has told police to stop carrying electric shock gloves, the same kind the Trump administration plans to buy.According to a Saturday article by The Guardian, Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that school resource officers stop using the electric-shock gloves. The Omaha police agreed two days later.The move followed reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to i…
Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students
Police in Omaha, Nebraska are catching a ton of flak after revealing that they deployed electric shock gloves on two separate students during the 2025-2026 school year. One of the students was enrolled in a special education program. After the news broke, Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray pleaded with the city police department to stop using the electrocution gloves against students. Though Omaha police refer to the gloves as their “safest use-of…
Shock Gloves in Schools and on Streets: How a Kentucky Device Quietly Spread Through Police Before Igniting National Outrage
Nebraska police officers have carried electric shock gloves for years. Few noticed until federal immigration agents prepared to receive thousands of them. The devices, known as G.L.O.V.E. or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, look like ordinary patrol gloves. Press a switch. Touch bare skin. A sharp pulse of electricity follows. Officers describe the sensation as a bee sting that gains compliance fast. Critics call the technology too easy to …
OPS removed shock gloves from its schools. 3 area districts are keeping them. These parents want them removed.
According to an OPD spokesperson, shock gloves remain in the Westside, Millard and Elkhorn districts Shock gloves were removed from most OPS schools earlier this week, but remain in 2 OPS schoolsBROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) Compliant Technologies' shock gloves are out of nearly every middle and high school in the Omaha Public Schools district.But, according to a spokesperson for the Omaha Police Department, school resource officers st…
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