The US Marine Corps is testing a long-range alternative to stun guns – it is a projectile that can be fired from a shotgun and that uses a parachute to slow down before delivering an electric shock Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247049-us-military-electroshock-weapon-can-hit-a-person-100-metres-away/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Nonfiction: The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing
In “Thin Blue Lie” Matt Stroud untangles the web of law enforcement agencies, for-profit corporations and politicians that have put technology at the center of policing. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/books/review/thin-blue-lie-matt-stroud.html?partner=rss&emc=rss