Civil rights advocates — including from the American Civil Liberties Union — expressed alarm at the plan, saying ICE officers already face criticism for their use of force during President Trump's immigration crackdown.

Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone's skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company.

"It's immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting," John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, who is studying how the device has been used, told The AP. "If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool."

Peters said he believed ICE's planned purchase would likely be the largest from the company to date. He said he could envision ICE officers using the gloves to help remove uncooperative subjects from cars and houses and in and out of detention facilities.

"For smaller officers or weaker officers or older officers, I think it has a great advantage" because it can produce faster takedowns and shorten confrontations, he said.

The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting "verbal defiance or belligerence" or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the ACLU, told The AP the public should have no confidence that ICE officers will use the devices appropriately. She questioned why the devices would be necessary for civil immigration enforcement and noted those getting shocked might have no advance warning.

"ICE spent the last year showing this country they are too quick to use force. Now they will be able to deploy electric shocks with the slight push of a button that maybe nobody else can see them do," she said. "Introducing gloves that can so easily be used to deliver terrible pain in encounters is a recipe for harm to the public."

Supporters say the devices are generally used in specific jail and transport situations, rather than broadly to patrol on the streets. They have been used to subdue violent suspects who are refusing to get into squad cars and inmates who are harming themselves and threatening officers, according to Compliant Technologies.

Peters said he expected the devices to be misused by a small number of employees, as with other policing technologies, but he said they are unlikely to cause injuries. He said it would be important for ICE to have robust policies and training in place.

To use the device, officers must complete a course and be recertified every two years, the manufacturer says.

The planned purchases come as ICE expands its crackdown on people accused of being in the U.S. illegally, amid pressure from the White House to arrest 2,000 people per day.

ICE has drawn scrutiny for its tactics during its arrest surge — including attempted vehicle stops in Maine and Texas last month that ended with ICE agents fatally shooting two immigrants.

In both of last month's shootings, agents were not wearing body cameras. DHS has pledged to widely deploy body-worn cameras, and said last month that all ICE arrest teams will have at least one officer equipped with a camera going forward.

>>1529525
See you in two months when
>ICE Accused Of Murder After Man Dies of Heart Attack Caused By New "Shock Gloves"

>>1529525
>ICE is constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.
Someone in the government was seriously thinking
>You know who else is good at catching criminals? Batman. What did he use?
Putting that budget to good use bros.

>>1529528
Or, alternatively considering how these guys aren't the brightest bulbs in the box and tend to be overweight chuds
>ICE Agent Dies After Shocking Self Into Heart Attack With New "Shock Gloves"

>>1529525
Guess Trump really wants to give ICE
UN-LIMITED POWAH

>>1529528
>fat-fuck redditor dies of a heart attack while trying to obstruct ICE agents
So what's the down side?

>>1529536
Makes it a lot easier and more popular to defund the whole fucking organization.

>>1529528
Oh well.

>>1529528
Nah, ICE is going to either accidentally kill some of their own, or it'll generate weapon discharges
wearable weapons on low iq morons are a recipe for self harm

This is amazing news. Excellent job President Trump. Give em hell boys

>>1529539
Hence >>1529530

Honestly I can see them fucking up and shocking themselves into a heart attack more. Hard to take the taser off when it's a glove on your hand

>>1529541
>shocking themselves into a heart attack more
Like these retards place their hands over their hearts for anything.
Dicks and guns

>>1529537
>Makes it a lot easier and more popular to defund the whole fucking organization.
Yeah yeah, we already know dems plan to abolish ICE, open the borders and flood the country with even more illegals than Biden did. They've made it very clear. Just like they've made it crystal-clear they want to pack the courts.

>>1529544
get a real job

>>1529528
More like
>ICE accused of murder after interpreting involuntary spasms as resistance

>>1529559
>involuntary spasms
I wonder how it feels to get shocked in the prostate by one of those gloves.

>>1529525
ICE is so fucking cool.

>>1529561
your mother thinks it would be cool if you got a real job

>>1529562
Why in the fuck would I do that? I'm partially retired and working is for fags and women now.

>>1529564
>partially retired
is that the euphemism your mother uses for your condition

>>1529528
Just comply.

>>1529565
Look, homo, you're obviously gay,

>>1529564
Oh man, being a dumb shill is a gig economy "job"? Grim.

>>1529568
Probably. But I do it for free.

>>1529566
ICE literally held up a woman at gunpoint because one of them hit her car like, last week.

>>1529570
Good.

>>1529571
if you're an esl shill, sure

>>1529570
idk why in the fuck liggerals think anyone still cares about their gay faggot activist tricks in 2026. Your shit's tired as fuck, mate.

>>1529573
keep it to one post next time

>>1529574
Why not try to post something worth reading?

>>1529575
you don't know how to read english