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.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    If you have a job in a school that has the word “officer” in it, you’re already doing school wrong

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      57 minutes ago

      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?

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    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
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      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

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        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.

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      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.

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    7 hours ago

    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.

    • Steve@startrek.website
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      35 minutes ago

      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.

    • adarza@lemmy.ca
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      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’.

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      7 hours 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.