ICE's New 'Compliance' Glove Has a Very Shocking 1930s Origin Story
ICE is rolling out electric shock gloves made by Compliant Technologies, marketed as a way to get 'compliance' without the messy viral video of an officer swinging fists. Turns out the idea is nearly a century old: a Cuban inventor patented a near identical glove in 1933, pitching it to police as a tool to 'incite fear' without leaving marks. The gloves have already zapped students in Omaha schools, and the pitch hasn't changed since 1935: pain without proof.
Nothing says progress like reviving a 90 year old torture patent and calling it innovation.