While some federal agencies have specific rules around less-lethal weapons – including CBP, which prohibits intentionally firing pepper balls at heads unless deadly force is justified, among other ...

CNN reviewed dozens of videos of immigration agents using less-lethal weapons like pepper spray and munition launchers and found repeated policy violations. CNN’s Yahya Abou-Ghazala reports ...

A Fullterton police officer killed a man in 2024 by firing a bean bag round that pierced the man's chest. The use of force was ruled justified, but the incident raises questions about law ...

ASP Trainer James Schramm offers insights for law enforcement agencies when it comes to use of force management and less-lethal training. With staffing shortages and budget shortfalls affecting law ...

A protester waves a flag in front of LAPD standing guard at a No Kings Day protest in Los Angeles on June 14 Credit: Courtesy of Michele McPhee Skirmish lines like this one have been used to quell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officers from the Department of Homeland Security fire less-lethal weapons at protesters who gathered in response to immigration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Los Angeles police officer aims his "less-lethal" weapon at a demonstrator in June 2020. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Los ...

PepperBall on Thursday announced plans to consolidate its manufacturing operations in Lake County, Illinois, including the construction of a new 15,000-square-foot production ...

Several fatalities stemming from supposedly ‘less-lethal’ police weapons are now the subject of coronial inquests, adding to pressure for tougher constraints on their use.

Columbus Police Department is using these 40mm launchers that fires less-than-lethal spongelike projectiles, and the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department will purchase similar launchers after the ...