On the night of December 4th, 2014, demonstrators filled the streets in protest of the grand jury's failure to indict Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner. Anika Edrei, Shay Horse, James Craven, ...

Court proceedings that could determine the fate of the NYPD's use of military-grade sound cannons, also known as LRADs, got underway Thursday as lawyers representing a group of six protesters, ...

(TNS) - The Greensboro, N.C., Police Department soon will be using a piece of equipment that has a controversial reputation. A Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, was purchased by the department in ...

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MANHATTAN (CN) — The New York City Police Department must face assault claims, a federal judge ruled, for their past decade of firing military-grade sound cannons on protesters. “This is a decision ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mayor Ted Wheeler directed police to not use a device that emits a loud sonic tone for crowd control ahead of another night of protests in Portland. The device is called LRAD, ...

The Phoenix Police Department wants to purchase two powerful loudspeakers that have been used by some law enforcement agencies to force protesters to disperse. The model of Long Range Acoustic Devices ...

The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for police to buy a $95,000 pair of high-powered and at-times controversial devices they say will help communicate with large crowds. In a ...

Protesters are suing the NYPD over a little-known police sound device with a big impact. NY1's Dean Meminger filed the following report. It's called an LRAD, a Long Range Acoustic Device. Some refer ...

SEATTLE — It’s being touted as a non-lethal crowd control tool by the Seattle Police Department, but Long Range Acoustic Devices, also known as LRADs, are now coming under scrutiny locally and other ...

December 17, 2007: While U.S. efforts to deploy it's microwave Active Denial System (which transmits a searchlight sized bean of energy when makes people downrange feel like their skin is on fire) ...

October 5, 2011: The Indian Navy has joined its Western counterparts in equipping its ships, off the Somali coast, with sonic cannon (or LRAD, for Long Range Acoustic Device). LRAD is basically a ...