Omaha’s mayor, John Ewing Jr, who helped oversee creating the school resource officer program when he was on the police force, said the department has honored the school district’s decision to “opt out”. The Omaha police department said officers will continue to carry stun guns, batons, pepper spray and firearms.
Most of the Omaha police department’s 34 school resource officers had been trained and were allowed to use the gloves, the mayor and the police chief, Todd Schmaderer, said in a statement.
“We believe it is the safest use-of-force option in the rare times when it is used,” the statement said.
In 2025, Omaha police agreed to pay Compliant Technologies LLC, which manufactures the gloves, about $66,000 for 40 gloves, according to the contract.
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.
Bellevue’s police chief, Ken Clary, said his officers will continue carrying the gloves, which they have had for more than three years.
“I am not comfortable having our officers give up a tool that has repeatedly proven to be safe, effective and less harmful than the alternatives,” Clary said in a statement.
The devices activate when an officer presses a button. The gloves must touch someone’s skin directly to produce voltage that causes pain, which is intended to make people stop resisting officers. Unlike stun guns, they do not leave burn or contact marks.
In the 2025-26 school year, an Omaha officer used the glove in one case to stop a high school student from another school from trying to escape after fighting with a security guard, according to the statement. In a second case, the glove was used on a student at the Omaha district’s integrated learning center for special education students. Police said that student made verbal threats and threw a chair at a school security guard, striking the guard in the head. The student also punched the guard in the head, according to the statement.
Bellevue police didn’t immediately have details about when its officers have used the gloves. Clary said the devices have been an extremely effective tool that sometimes make students cooperate on sight even without shocking a student.
The bold emphasis parts really sum up how these terrorists think. A student being so scared at the sight of them that they comply is “effective” to them. A person “trying to escape” is a huge deal to them (highest incarceration rate brain “country”). A special education student causing problems must be approached with violence. The solution is always to escalate and do more violence, instill fear, and when all else fails, either maim or imprison those who resist so they can be more easily intimidated and maimed.
It’s clear that with US cops, their goal is not safety or deescalation whatsoever; their primary goal is to protect themselves (the cops) even if that means hiding from conflict, and their secondary goal is to find people who are weaker / more vulnerable than them and escalate so that they have excuses to inflict violence.
But this is nothing new when we put it in the context of how colonizers go about colonizing.
how have they had these gloves for 3 years but the first anyone has ever talked about them was like 3 weeks ago? that dude is smoking something
It is only making the news now because ICE using them.
Shock gloves? Is that new? And why do they have them in schools?
They leave less signs than tasers.
Who are they tasing or shock gloving at schools?
children
It just
happened this monthand they already getting pushback. They claim shock gloves are not as bad as using a taser, but even still they are painfully shocking those affectedCorrection: It was only mentioned this month, but Omaha had the gloves since 2025.
