Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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    9 hours ago

    Turns out if you call all cops bastards enough, the ones who aren’t just leave or don’t sign up in the first place because they don’t want to be hated, leaving only those who don’t mind or enjoy the hate.

    Eventually the actual percentage will hit 100%.

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      7 hours ago

      What a hilariously stupid take. The cops have earned every ounce of hate that they get, and then some. How’s that boot taste, buddy?

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        6 hours ago

        Sorry but I don’t have time to waste on people who start a comment with

        What a hilariously stupid take.

        (apart from the obvious - calling them out for their bad-faith tactics)

        In the future, make comments of substance rather than waste time with “I disagree and you are dumb.”

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      8 hours ago

      Ah yes, it’s the peoples fault that the police are hateful. Amazing take. We are too mean to them, it’s our fault, we deserve it. Truly a masterpiece of human thought. Thank you for sharing.

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        8 hours ago

        That’s an oversimplification to mischaracterize my point, but if you’ve decided to nope out of critical thought on the matter, I wouldn’t stop you if I could.