I taught arrest techniques and non-deadly force for a good part of my career, and I spent more than 24 years in immigration enforcement, finishing as deputy field office director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in New York City. I now serve as a visiting fellow for deportation studies at the Oversight Project. Before all of that and alongside it, I spent over three decades in uniform, including running a theater internment facility at Camp Cropper in Baghdad. I have put hands on people who did not want hands put on them, and I have taught other people how to do it without anybody ending up in an ambulance.

So when I saw that this week’s outrage is a contract for gloves that deliver a low-voltage stimulus, my reaction was not alarm. It was recognition. We have been trying to solve this exact problem since before I pinned on a badge.

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The problem is simple. The most dangerous stretch in law enforcement is the gap between telling a man he is under arrest and getting cuffs on his wrists. If he complies, nothing happens. If he does not, an officer has to close the distance and physically overcome him. That is where officers get hurt and that is where subjects get hurt. The National Institute of Justice’s multiagency study of force........

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