DAILYCALLER (Harold Hutchison) - Former WWE Star-Turned-Mayor Cuts The Cord With Flock
‘I do not believe the 2020 contract between Knox County and your company is valid’
AXIOS (Avery Lotz) - ICE plans to put electric-shock gloves on officers' hands
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to begin using electric shock gloves designed to cause pain and disrupt a person's ability to react. The big picture: The gloves could give ICE officers a new way to use force as their tactics face intense scrutiny after several deaths and violent encounters . Driving the news: ICE plans to spend between $10 and $20 million on the gloves and issue them to Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement Removal Operations officers and agents, per a Department of Homeland Security notice published Monday. - The Associated Press was first to report the plan. - The CTG-5 Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, or G.L.O.V.E, is produced by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies, which did not respond…
STRIPES (Matthew M. Burke) - US soldier in Germany invents wearable drone detector to protect front-line troops | Stars and Stripes
Army Sgt. Ryan Minton is putting the finishing touches on a drone detector that soldiers can wear like protective gear.
STRIPES (John Vandiver) - Air Force brings laser weapons to Europe to fight drones | Stars and Stripes
U.S. Air Force deploys new counterdrone and laser defense systems across Europe to defend bases against increasingly sophisticated drone threats.
DAILYCALLER (Abigail Archer) - Sign Of The Times: Defense Company Arms Schools With Drones To Stop Active Shooters
‘distract, disorient, confront, degrade, and incapacitate a shooter’
NEWSNATIONNOW (Adelaide Taylor) - Three states to deploy pepper-spraying drones to combat school shootings
The drones can confront a shooter within 60 seconds after a school reports the threat.
AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - Neighborhood watch programs are fading in the age of Ring and Nextdoor
America's classic neighborhood watch programs are fading as AI -powered apps turn neighborhoods into digital watch zones. Why it matters: The automation of neighborhood safety with tools like Amazon's Ring and the Nextdoor app is quietly dismantling one of the country's most basic forms of civic life: neighbors who actually know each other. - What's replacing it is faster, smarter — and far more detached. - Shared videos of "suspicious" strangers and wildlife alerts are in; out are block captains, porch meetings and "See Something, Say Something" signs. Zoom in: Ring doorbells stream constant footage, allowing users to post it all on an app as alerts. - Nextdoor posts flag "suspicious" strangers and lets users shame dog walkers who…