Police have been banned from using a powerful, non-lethal weapon to control protests in an extraordinary federal court decision. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall ruled on Thursday the Los Angeles Police ...

While some federal agencies have specific rules around less-lethal weapons – including CBP, which prohibits intentionally firing pepper balls at heads unless deadly force is justified, among other ...

Discover the technology behind the Active Denial System (ADS), often referred to as the "Beam of Pain," a cutting-edge non-lethal weapon developed under the Weapon of Effects Program. This video ...

Riot police from Beirut and Baghdad to Hong Kong and Minsk often use so-called "non-lethal" weapons for crowd control -- so why do protesters keep dying and being maimed? As street protests worldwide ...

Bruises, loss of vision or the loss of an eye – injuries during protests have drawn more attention to what police call "non-lethal" tools. An expert tells us there are certain categories: Chemical ...

Sometimes the military would prefer its enemies writhing in pain as opposed to dead on the ground. For times like that, it enlists the Joint Non-Lethal Directorate, which produces a reference book of ...