ASP Trainer James Schramm offers insights for law enforcement agencies when it comes to use of force management and less-lethal training. With staffing shortages and budget shortfalls affecting law ...

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A man died from blunt force trauma to the chest after being struck by less-lethal rounds fired by Phoenix Police during a Jan. 10 standoff. Though a county attorney's office found the officers' ...

Chandler Crumblish Paine is a full-time mom and regular jogger who lives in Fort Worth, Texas. She’s never owned a gun, but last year she became increasingly concerned about her safety, especially ...

Most every law enforcement agency understands the inherent value of making less-lethal force options available to their first responders. Less-Lethal force options are no longer found only in ...

A protester waves a flag in front of LAPD standing guard at a No Kings Day protest in Los Angeles on June 14 Credit: Courtesy of Michele McPhee Skirmish lines like this one have been used to quell ...

Federal agencies deployed law enforcement and other personnel during protests following George Floyd’s death. Many used less-lethal force—tactics and weapons that are not intended to cause death or ...

Federal law enforcement reports on their officers’ use of less-lethal force during racial justice demonstrations in Portland last year often didn’t include basic information that would allow ...

The Fairfax County Police Department has switched out patrol shotguns for a less-lethal alternative. The department took 800 shotguns out of its circulation and put 630 beanbag shotguns into use.

On January 18, a photograph of a pair of safety goggles in a hardware store floated across my Instagram timeline. “#JOURNALISTS covering #iceprotest in #Minneapolis: Less lethal projectiles move ...