And in addition to being less effective, she also argues that the gloves would pose a greater threat of harming people who have encounters with immigration officials, while making it more difficult to hold officers accountable.
Unlike a taser, which incapacitates its target by temporarily locking up their muscles and inhibiting bodily control, the gloves “are only about pain compliance,” Schlanger says.
“They don’t incapacitate. They just hurt, and so what that means is that they’re not only used in a situation when a person is posing a risk to a law enforcement officer,” she says to TIME. “Pain compliance is a method of painful domination. Because of that, it’s very subject to being misused. It can be used in circumstances where it’s not needed. It can be used to excess.”
A taser is also more effective, safe, and humane, she contends, because it can be brandished from a distance before it is used.
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