Columbus Police Department is using these 40mm launchers that fires less-than-lethal spongelike projectiles, and the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department will purchase similar launchers after ...

LAPD officers use “less-lethal” launcher devices far more often than other big-city agencies, the report to the department’s civilian oversight commission found, renewing questions about ...

Officer Devon Wenger fired the 40mm less lethal round at the suspect ... and aims and fires the less-lethal launcher within five seconds, yelling out “less lethal, less lethal,” as he ...

Some officers behind and next to them carried shotguns loaded with beanbag rounds or 40mm launchers with sponge rounds, less-lethal munitions referred to as a “pain compliance device” by its ...

Police agencies’ cache of less-lethal weapons includes Tasers, tear gas canisters and beanbag shotguns. Then there are 40 mm launchers. Escondido police used 40 mm launchers a week ago when two ...