Nebraska's largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students

WHAT? Bet if i was there you wouldn't say that to my face.

Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America.

Can't believe a nation founded on slavery and baptized in blood would come to this.

This was an example of American corruption. A school official probably has a friend who is involved with the shock glove company and got kick backs for buying weapons to use on children.

Facism is imperalism turned inward.

Nothing left? Brother it had and has nothing else.

It was started on the principles of "I moved here and now I own the land because god told me so, now stand still while I genocide your entire nationality"

Moved to "I own you because someone brought you here on a boat and I need someone to work the fields."

Moved to "You may have civil rights but we make all the drugs and write the laws"

Moved to "Be free and happy, go do acid and don't look too closely at the vague yet menacing government agents wiretapping your homes, they are here for your safety"

Moved to "Serial killers are everywhere (don't look too closely at them, either. Dont want you seeing their badges)"

Moved to "We need agents everywhere watching everything, and Guantanamos in multiple locations because terrurists."

Its a long line of bloody murder stretching all the way back to colonialism (and beyond!)

Important to note that it's typically violence against people who can't really push back without risking getting killed.
It's time to make bullies afraid again, but I don't know how without starting a total escalation.

then give it back. wear your own shock gloves and give the school cops a pat on the back fo 'keeping kids safe' or whatever it is they do when they are attacking parents from trying to save their kids

with a veneer of faux prosperity.

It's also into sex and drugs. Not as much rock 'n roll as you might hope, though.

Im surprised school shootings is news at this point. Seems to be like a weekend event.

It's all rot

A bunch of performative cruelty.

Don’t forget the gambling and the grifting and the cornering of technology markets

It's really bad, it's deeply deeply ingrained in our culture. I hear people say "i swear to god im gonna murder him" multiple times daily at work. The violence is baked right into our language. (I guess the religionism too lmao)

Sorry gen 5? There are five generations of these things and we're just hearing about it now?

"I may be delivering the voltage, but don't blame me. The kid is the one pulling the current." –The cop, probably

The answer is always money. Someone benefited financially from starting it.

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Public site, 100% uptime, every weapons pull listed in real time. They put those gloves on, it's noted, they pull the baton out, it's listed. They draw their guns it's listed. Transparency would be a good start. Body camera footage should also be available to the people in the videos automatically in identification.

There shouldn't be any police in schools in the first place, like in the rest of the world.

I agree but the tech can't be trusted to work when it needs to.

Insane comment. What is the equipment even necessary for with that limited access?

Perhaps that is your point, but it might as well be people deployed from a location rather than onsite personnel.

Oh, that's easy. The draconian measures that I support are to be used on them, not me and my folk!

have you seen the copanganda, military worship that goes on media/films thats how they reinforce that control.

I absolutely hate cops and have had horrible experiences with them my entire life. I don’t understand this cop worship either they’re always the dumbest most abusive people you knew growing up.

Having police in schools stops school shooters... /s if it isn't fucking obvious

It’s so there’s someone there to easily arrest black kids for doing normal kid stuff.

It's to increase the efficiency of the school to prison pipeline.

Stopping fights, looking for drugs or weapons, giving kids a head start on a life full of imprisonment; you know, the same safety regulations every sane nation would have 🙄 Growing up with parts of my childhood in the US private and public educational system, it became very clear very quick that the cops didn't really give a single shit about me or saving my life if something happened. They were there to 'keep an eye on the troubled, inner-city kids' i.e. "scare and threaten the minority* kids"

*I say minority but my school was actually pretty diverse, all things considered, though the black kids definitely had a slim majority

Absolutely weird, but the situation probably isn't exactly like what you're envisioning. Outside of a few notoriously violent/"gang activity" regions, they're not regular staff - there will be a couple of School Resource Officers (yeah, really what they're called) for an entire district, and they will float around to the various schools on a schedule (ex: my comically awful highschool had one stop by every two weeks).

They're also there almost entirely to deal with incredibly tedious administrative tasks that students never see - things like truancy cases, monitoring parental custody orders, coordinating public risk management, following up on teacher concerns about abuse, monitoring sentence diversions, deeply unglamorous but fairly important things like that. The cliche'd idea of them "stopping school shooters" has never been what SROs are for despite what they may claim their role is (uvalde utterly debunked that pigmyth...). And while the popular image of police "raiding lockers" searching for drugs is absolutely based on real events, it's a pretty dated meme at this point; mass "dragnet" searches like that have been repeatedly ruled unconstitutional (I haven't heard of one happening in years), and very few highschools even have student lockers anymore.

Excessive force like using these "tazer gloves" is just yet another thread in the greater tapestry of the US' issues with policing, which can be boiled down to two major issues: First, that the police have been used as the catchall for tasks that really shouldn't be their job, and second that those interdisciplinary tasks have been given to a group that is worryingly easily infiltrated by fascists. The first point is a lot more addressable than the second, but as several regions have started shifting from the police there's been dramatic improvement in the fascist problems as well, and among the most successful have been replacing SROs with Limited LEOs (essentially social workers with very restricted legal enforcement powers, who exist entirely separately from the police). Really, it's a very outdated concept and absolutely is not a role the police should have ever been used for.

Cause of genuine mentally defective individuals that lack impulse control, that go and do violent ass shit.

stopping school shooters?

its specifically texas that banned it too.

Or they just really like electrocution of children.

It's called America, the land of guns and idiots.

Welcome to America. ICE just signed a multiple million dollar contract to get these to use on 'illegal immigrants'. US tax dollars hard at work here.

FREEDOM BABY!! FEEL UP THE LOVE!!

-said no American ever these days

I don't know metal would be the material of choice given the context, but point taken.

Full body tinfoil wrappings.

No. It's just the AP style to not say an acronym without ever saying what it means

I mean you can, sometimes the first shit i see makes me shut down the computer lol

For those who don't spend all their time online, "ahh" is a substitute (or euphemism?) for "ass". Kids have taken to say things like "ahh" instead of "ass" and "unaliving" for "suicide", and "funk" for "fuck", "epistomegacy" for "active clown threat", "rat intestine" for "rat intestine" and who even knows what else!

Well I for one am sick and tired of it and that's all I have to say on the matter.

It's the KKK's Next Door with their fearless leader Numbuh 88

You can write ass on lemmy lmao

Electricity is truly a weapon of state terror. Not only the pain, but you completely lose control of your body in an (bonus points) undignified manner. And while it's so intensely affecting it's usually not lethal, nor will it leave obvious marks.

It's the perfect weapon of casual torture for power tripping bastards.

not me im not in the usa

We're going on 1 decade+ of it "feeling like 1939"

They will still kill. The gloves are just so they can torture people.

Even tasers are 'less lethal' as people can and do die from them.

I'd rather see school shooters shot dead

I'd rather police stationed in schools not be armed at all. Uvalde showed it didn't matter for an actual shooting if they were armed. Hell, we don't need cops in schools in the first place.

I wonder if it's a reverse bear-gun-spray situation. Bear spray is more effective than guns against bears because people avoid shooting bears out of empathy. Could police be more likely to go straight to non-lethal pain with gloves?

Yes, they're called School Resource Officers, and they are mandated to have one at every school. My son's elementary school had a mobile home on school property, where the School Resource Officer actually lived with her family. I don't know if any other school that had that set-up.

They're supposed to be good for the schools, helping keep the peace, set an example for the kids, give them someone trustworthy they can come to, etc.

But they often end up abusing, raping, beating, arresting, etc. the kids instead. Good luck getting the kids to trust you, or any other cops, after that.

Given the number of school shootings... Who knows.

You know the somewhat older phrase, "one bad apple spoils the bunch"?

So spoiled fruit actually release ethylene, which is the feedstock for polyethylene plastic, and also acts as a plant hormone. Ethylene will speed up the spoilage of the rest of the barrel. That's why a bad apple can spoil the bunch.

Point is, it's not the public calling them bastards that makes the good ones quit. The entire system of policing is designed to either break the good ones or force them out.

Ah yes, it's the peoples fault that the police are hateful. Amazing take. We are too mean to them, it's our fault, we deserve it. Truly a masterpiece of human thought. Thank you for sharing.

What a hilariously stupid take. The cops have earned every ounce of hate that they get, and then some. How's that boot taste, buddy?