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Omaha Public Schools requests SROs to not carry shock gloves, effective immediately. Omaha Public Schools is fighting back after parents and students spoke out against the use of shock gloves in scho… (www.ketv.com)
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Full title: Omaha Public Schools requests SROs to not carry shock gloves, effective immediately. Omaha Public Schools is fighting back after parents and students spoke out against the use of shock gloves in schools.

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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In addition to everything you instinctually felt about how horrible this is, according to the company's own documentation, these are not supposed to be used on children as it increases the chance of death

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQ176YYgNl3VXCgLX0ScoihsfXyATpfY/view

Other highlights include:

  • multiple or prolonged shocks are lethal
  • disrupts the human heart
  • "cannot" be used on the head, face, throat, chest and groin
  • "cannot" be used on pregnant women, children, older adults, or people with disabilities
  • can deliver 90 minutes of shocks per charge
[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me when I'm trying to innocently do my job of shocking people in the street but I run out of charge after only 80 minutes (I should have gotten the 90 minute battery) and can no longer harras-- I mean protect people

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Luckily, as a member of ~~the gestapo~~ ice, you're part of the 3rd most well funded military in the world. We'll buy you two for when you have to beat the crowds.

That 90 minutes shit is just as insane as everything else. These are so very obviously designed to be used as a constant pain device. They want people to fill with terror at the sight of their oppressors.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Wow, yeah, 380V / 1.2A can absolutely be lethal if electrocuted… even in healthy adults. The most dangerous path for the electricity is from the hand or arm, as it can pass through the heart; which of course is exactly where you would grab a person with the glove.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that there are police in schools is already not normal. Wtf America?

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

we've had them for a while. -Gotta start getting them those drug charges when they're young.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have a job in a school that has the word "officer" in it, you're already doing school wrong

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? What about the CEO of high school??

How can you possibly run any kind of organization without a CEO to make all the questionable decisions?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Several of the administrators of a school system do bear job titles containing the word "officer" such as the finance officer, head of the finance department over purchasing, bookkeeping and payroll.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

OPS is not the only school district where OPD is using the shock gloves. The department has confirmed they are using them in Elkhorn, Millard, and Westside public school districts.

In a statement to Omaha's News Leader and parents, Westside Community Schools stated that "safety and security personnel were made aware of the potential deployment of these tools on March 27, 2025. Our board of education was made aware of them late last week."

What the actual fuck is going on? I cannot understand how multiple employees knew about shock gloves for over a year, didn’t tell the BoE, and kept their jobs. What else aren’t they disclosing that a reporter didn’t ask about?

Fire them.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I am playing this over and over in my head…

SROs are using shock gloves..

WOW when I was in high school the SRO was this really cool dude who was the wrestling team coach.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

When I was in grade school (in the 90s) we didn't have any police officers at the school unless something happened requiring a police response like a bomb threat. We didn't have metal detectors or any of the security theater that they use to brainwash children into being compliant with prison-like conditions.

Guess what? Nobody got shot or murdered in any way, and the only violence we ever dealt with was an occasional fight between students. But this was during the height of violent crime in the USA.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

we had no cop or 'resource officer' at all, in any of the schools i attended (70s-80s minnesota, rural and the cities). the only times we even saw cops at school was when they were conning parents into letting them have our fingerprints, or for what became the annual 'DARE scare'.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

My schools resource officer was a retired sheriff who was also the school councilor and had a master's in child physc. Was really chill and frequently hosted help groups and summer activities for the kids.

It's fucking weird to think for them as like normal ass cops.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 2 days ago

I was arrested by one freshman year. He just said, "I'm not going to hand cuff you, but don't run because then we'll both have a bad time."

But he thought the reason I was being arrested was bullshit (bringing a pocket knife to a rural school to give to a friend). Bro even picked up McDonald's on the way to the juvenile probation office.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When I was in HS all the farm kids carried their knives and multitools to school every day.

One year the administration asked us to stop, but nobody listened and they didnt mention it again.

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Same. My small town high school wasn't even in a farming community, but no one said anything to the leatherman wave I had on my belt.

I'm sure if In was showing it off or brandishing it around I would have gotten told to leave it at home, but I was responsible so it was never an issue. Got bullied, never once considered reaching for it as a weapon.

We have a societal failing right now where people for some reason think violence is OK. A knife, a gun, a car, or a hammer can do incredible damage and people should treat them all with the respect they deserve. If citizens start thinking about "arming themselves", even when they have easy access to such tools, we've already fucked up.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was in carpentry class in high school. I walked around campus with a box cutter, a 16 ounce claw hammer, a nail gun and a skilsaw. I could have Freddy Krugered the entire glee club. I didn't because I'm an asshole, not a psychopath.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Bet you could give someone a kick ass pricing tho

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That almost sounds like a healthy role or something. Can’t have that!

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If I had a kid in high school with this shit I would be fucking livid.

[–] undyingshadow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

All great societies have a time limit, and we are reaching ours.