Omaha police agreed to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks in the halls of Nebraska's largest public school district.

Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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    Officers were expected to give warning before using the gloves and then touch the person for up to 15 seconds while the electric shock was delivered, the statement said.

    According to the manual, these things (the Gen 5 gloves) are discharging 324–362V at 0.7–1.2A and the Gen 4s 210–380V at 0.9–1.5A.

    That’s around half a kW for you folks keeping track at home. Better hope little Timmy’s heatlh class is teaching him what a regular sinus rhythm is.

    I hope any officer who uses that on a child gets a prostate exam with a G.L.O.V.E. equipped.