U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers could soon use gloves that can give a painful electric shock to anyone they touch. As first reported by the Associated Press, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice on Monday revealing plans to distribute electrically powered shock gloves to ICE agents by the end of March next year. Called the G.L.O.V.E. (an acronym for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), the device is developed by Kentucky company Compliant Technologies, which markets it as a "Conductive Distraction and De-escalation Device" or CD3. "CD3s are not weapons — they deliver small, non-injurious electrical pulses directly to the surface of the skin, the body’s largest and most conductive organ, achieving NPI (Neuro Peripheral Interference)," Compliant Technologies states on its website. In short, the gloves cause a painful electric shock.
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According to Compliant Technologies, the G.L.O.V.E "delivers a pain stimulus strictly to the area" of the skin that it touches, overstimulating and disrupting signals in the nervous system. This overwhelms and overloads the brain, causing a person to instinctively attempt to retreat."Because the effect is so intense, it disrupts normal thought processes and interferes with expected reactions," the company states. "In most cases, this results in the subject effectively complying or conceding in order to end the effects."
