police militarization

police militarization

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Many areas with large crowds are known as “soft targets,” meaning they are relatively unprotected against a variety of threats including terrorist attacks and...
Photo illus. active shooter training - U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Anderson. DVIDS

Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and mainly the weak response by police who didn't move in to kill...
door

A new door breaching grenade technology will improve Explosive Method of Entry (EMOE) operations and provide more safety for breaching teams. The 40mm stand-off...

Some 10,000 police officers are being deployed each day in Glasgow during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), one...

By Or Shalom, HLS expert MILIPOL exhibition, held in Paris from October 19 to October 22, 2021, under the auspices of the French Ministry of...

A new rectangular, pocket-sized stun grenade about the size of a smartphone is now offered by Rheinmetall. The Spectac non-lethal effector is specially designed for...

Will military equipment help secure the US capital’s most famous site? Six months after the attack on the United States Capitol in Washington D.C.,...

"Robots can save police lives, and that's a good thing, but we also need to be careful it doesn't make a police force more...
SWAT drone

A new drone platform, the LEMUR, will help SWAT teams locate, isolate, and communicate with suspects. A ruggedized and durable composition combined with an...

Airmen with the US 96th Security Forces Squadron are now in possession of Throwbots, wheeled micro-robots that can roll into unsafe areas and transmit...
K9 training

Dogs operate in a wide range of capacities within the military including security, patrol, explosives detection, tracking, search and rescue, guard, sentry and tactical...
barricade hostage

During a hostage crisis, one of the first objectives of the crisis negotiator is to control the communications in and out of the location...

Coping with crowd control missions, security and military forces often lack safe, non-lethal weapons with sufficient range.  While rubber bullets are only effective out to...
smart city

Cities around the globe are expected to add 2.5 billion new residents by 2050 and are already home to half the world’s population, according...

Room clearing is part of military operations in urban terrain, close-quarters combat, and active-shooter responses. This complex and risky action involves the identification of...
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Prisons and correctional facilities have unique security challenges that other enterprises typically do not have. In addition to traditional security concerns such as perimeter...
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Rubber bullets and tear gas are not the only nonlethal weapons available in dispersing illegal demonstrations. The US Marines have been recently testing a...
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Three teams will build prototypes for the US Army ISV squad vehicle. An Oshkosh Defense and Flyer Defense team, an SAIC and Polaris team,...
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A new boat stopping technology brings to a quick and safe halt vessels whose maneuvers  arouse suspicions about their intent. The new family of...
Photo illust. US Navy

Stun grenades are a non-lethal weapon used by law enforcement, SWAT teams and military servicemen in order to temporarily disorient a suspect’s or an...
swat

A small unmanned aerial vehicle (sUAV) was used during a barricade incident involving a robbery suspect, demonstrating capabilities in SWAT operations. For the first...

The Berlin Police Department has received a heavily protected Survivor R special operations vehicle. The vehicle was ordered in September 2017 as part of...