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They have (also known as an "LRAD") https://genasys.com/video/buffalo-ny-pd-acquire-lrad-500x-for-crowd-communications/ https://genasys.com/video/buffalo-ny-pd
by dashundchen 6y ago
They have (also known as an "LRAD")
https://genasys.com/video/buffalo-ny-pd-acquire-lrad-500x-for-crowd-communications/ https://genasys.com/video/buffalo-ny-pd-acquire-lrad-500x-fo...
I know it was deployed in the past month Buffalo, Portland, Seattle, New York and Washington DC at least, and I'm sure many more police departments have used it.
These should be banned along with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades. The indiscriminate nature and damage these weapons cause is the definition of excessive force.
EDIT: Sorry, was mistaken. ADS is not the same as LRAD - though neither should be in the hands of local police departments.
- phonypc 6y agoDifferent systems. LRAD is acoustic, ADS is radio frequency heating.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoFortunately not the same devices. The ADS gives people the sensation their skin is burning. From wikipedia: > The ADS works by firing a high-powered (100 kW output power) beam of 95 GHz waves at a target, which corresponds to a wavelength of 3.2 mm. The ADS millimeter wave energy works on a similar principle as a microwave oven, exciting the water and fat molecules in the skin, and instantly heating them via dielectric heating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
- klyrs 6y ago> The ADS gives people the sensation their skin is burning. Waterboarding gives people the sensation of drowning. This is an instrument of torture.
- phonypc 6y agoI think using the word "sensation" is even downplaying things. Their skin is burning. People are drowning. It just (usually) stops before permanent injury or death.