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ICE to Spend $20 Million on Electric-Shock Gloves by 2027

8/12/2026

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ICE Purchases Shock Gloves

Department of Homeland Security announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement will purchase electric-shock gloves, delivery expected March 2027.
Civil-rights groups, ACLU director Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, called the proposal disgusting and barbaric and warned it could expand ICE’s use of force.
ICE will spend up to $20 million for thousands of G.L.O.V.E. gloves made by Compliant Technologies.
In 2022, two South Carolina officers were charged for shocking an inmate with the device.

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ICE Buys Shockgloves

U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will purchase electric-shock gloves for its officers.
ICE officials say the gloves are meant to deter violent resistance from detainees and suspects.
ICE reports a 1,300 % increase in assaults on agents since Trump administration’s deportation campaign began.
The $20 million procurement will buy G.L.O.V.E. gloves after a 3,300 % rise in vehicular attacks.

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ICE Buys Shockgloves

U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will buy electric-shock gloves for its agents, with delivery scheduled for March 2027.
The procurement notice states the $10-$20 million purchase has no documented injuries from prior use.
Delivery is planned for March 2027 to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations.
The ACLU warned the public should not assume ICE will use the gloves appropriately.

Blindspot

ICE officials say the agency has seen a 1,300 % increase in assaults and a 3,300 % rise in vehicular attacks on its agents since the Trump administration began its mass-deportation campaign.
Within this story's sources, this angle appears mainly in Right-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Left-leaning and Center-leaning coverage.

History

Historical Context

Congress’s 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which created VAWA and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, expanded federal involvement in law-enforcement policy. After the ban expired in September 2004, the federal approach to police tools persisted, a pattern reflected today as DHS’s ICE orders $20 million of G.L.O.V.E. gloves, drawing criticism from ACLU director Jenn Rolnick Borchetta.

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ICE Purchases Shock Gloves

Department of Homeland Security announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement will purchase electric-shock gloves, delivery expected March 2027.
Civil-rights groups, ACLU director Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, called the proposal disgusting and barbaric and warned it could expand ICE’s use of force.
ICE will spend up to $20 million for thousands of G.L.O.V.E. gloves made by Compliant Technologies.
In 2022, two South Carolina officers were charged for shocking an inmate with the device.

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