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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The indictment accuses the men of repeatedly using excessive force, particularly through dog bites and a 40mm less lethal launcher, taking pictures and videos for personal use and bragging about ...

but are considered a non-lethal or less-than-lethal weapon. The 40mm launcher fires what are known as kinetic or direct impact projectiles — rounds that are considered less-lethal as they can ...

The approved purchases include 3,000 rounds of pepper munitions, 500 rounds of 40mm impact munitions, 12 drones, & 9 less-lethal launchers across six University of California campuses. The vote ...