safer than other non-lethal options<\/a> to subdue targets for arrest and deportation and protesters who create civil disturbances. The agency has argued the rapid compliance they cause will keep officers safer and prevent incidents from requiring potentially lethal force.<\/p>\nBut critics have warned the gloves will give ICE another weapon to intimidate and brutalize people even as the agency is under fire for excessive force that has left a trail of deaths and injuries across the nation. The gloves, they note, are easy to discharge, do not leave a mark and have not been extensively used in settings outside of jails. The manufacturer warns they should not be used on high-risk populations such as kids, pregnant women or disabled people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe military assessment in ICE\u2019s own files shows that these gloves can cause \u2018intense pain\u2019 and force compliance. It does not establish that they are safe,\u201d said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight. \u201cEveryone should be alarmed that ICE is preparing to deploy a tool designed to inflict, at best, intense pain, without showing that it is safe for the people who will be subjected to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE released the study and other documents to American Oversight as part of the group’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency seeking records related to its use of force.<\/p>\n
The military prison study assessed whether the gloves could be used effectively to forcibly remove combative prisoners from their cells, to respond to disturbances in common areas and to transport uncooperative inmates. Role-playing employees conducted several scenarios with and without the gloves to test their impact, including violent encounters in which inmates were to fight as hard as they could.<\/p>\n
The study found the devices \u201cincreased the efficiency\u201d of teams carrying out forced cell extractions and responding to disturbances by reducing the length of physical encounters, keeping guards from becoming exhausted and preventing injuries. They did not \u201csignificantly change\u201d the time it took to control inmates during escorts but required less effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cGLOVE provides a boost in confidence to smaller or less trained members,\u201d the study found. \u201cInmate compliance was immediate\u201d compared to other methods, it added.<\/p>\n
The electric jolt does not cause the body to freeze like a Taser shock does, but instead \u201cworks by overloading the peripheral nerve endings\u201d of the skin to cause pain, the study said. Participants who were wet or had oil on their skin described even more powerful shocks, with one reporting discomfort for 30 minutes afterward.<\/p>\n
ICE’s contract requires the manufacturer, Compliant Technologies LLC, to deliver the gloves within six months. Its owner, Jeff Niklaus, said he was unavailable for an interview, citing a busy workload.<\/p>\n
White House border czar Tom Homan has said it could \u201cbe awhile\u201d before the gloves are in the field because ICE is still ironing out training and policy issues. ICE did not respond to an AP request for comment on the study and the status of the rollout.<\/p>\n
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said ICE has not responded to an Aug. 27 letter in which she and 15 other Democratic Senate colleagues called for ICE to abandon its plan to buy the gloves or explain how they would be used and managed to avoid abuse. She said she still wants answers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout ICE\u2019s responses to legitimate questions from 16 United States Senators, the American public is being left in the dark about how these electric shock gloves are being deployed and what, if any, training the agents who use them have received,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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