SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco police may consider utilizing a new tool that's described as 'flying handcuffs.' It's a remote-restraint device known as the BolaWrap designed to be a non-lethal ...
DENVER (KDVR) — A Loveland police officer used a BolaWrap to stop a fleeing suspect, according to a post on X from the Loveland Police Department. Bolas are not a new tool, and have dated back ...
The San Francisco Police Department today announced an upcoming pilot program of a Spiderman-like lasso restraint tool, advertised by its creators as a way to avoid the need for force by law ...
LOVELAND, Colo. (KDVR) — A suspect tried to run, but police in Loveland used a high-tech tool, stopping him in seconds. Officers say the man was wanted for breaking into vehicles and took off when ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The United States at large is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis. Unfortunately, police departments across the country are often underfunded and under-equipped to ...
SOUTH BEND — “Wrap, wrap, wrap,” South Bend Police Officer Brian Meador yelled out before deploying the department's new non-lethal restraining device, the BolaWrap, on a volunteer. Two ends of a cord ...
LEE COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) — A restraint tool designed for de-escalation is giving law enforcement personnel a new force-avoidance option. Several members of the Lee County Sheriff's Office took part in a ...
The national conversation about police use of force has intensified since George Floyd’s death, which has brought up the discussion around a restraint tool with a lower risk. At Wrap Technologies in ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- When an armed man hunkered down in a Koreatown strip mall last week, the Los Angeles Police Department leaned on a new tool to decrease the danger to its officers: a robot dog.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield Police are looking to increase their supply of nonlethal restraining devices that would help officers control unruly individuals. Springfield Mayor Domenic ...
Amid an increase in crime and drug overdoses, the Los Angeles Police Department has proposed arming officers who patrol Metro buses and trains with a nonlethal whip-like device that wraps around a ...
Officers patrolling the Los Angeles Metro transit system will not be issued a lasso-type weapon anytime soon, officials confirmed this week. The BolaWrap, a nonlethal device meant to bind a person ...