Flash Bang Grenade


The Flash Bang grenade lets out a very loud bang and a flash of light. This is loud enough to deafen for a full minute and sometimes can blind. This is useful in terrorist situations where the enemy has weapons.

Problems: A major problem with Flash Bang is that they are indisciminate. This means that they will harm anyone in the general area. The light and sound can deafen an officer that is attempting to enter the area. Being deafened or slightly blinded is unacceptable because they have to deliver accurate shots. Flash Bangs generally cannot be used in hospital situations because patients may be sensitive to light or sound.

Rubber/Beanbag Bullets


Rubber and Bean Bag Bullets are fired from a specialized shotgun. These cause immediate pain and bruising. They are also often used to scare away dangerous animals. These are fired like shotgun shells- as they are packed into a shell which is removed while in flight, leaving the the beanbags to hit in different areas.

Problems: A problem found with these is that they have the potential to kill. If shot in a soft part of the body, they could cause serious injury. There are many accounts of both types of bullets causing serious injury, but they do more good then they do harm.

Anti-Traction Material

Anti-Traction Material is so slippery that a car cannot drive on it. If an officer put it on a doorknob, it would become so slippery it would be nearly impossibly to open until it dries off. The material takes 12 hours to dry and it is biodegradable. It is made of mostly water.

Problems: If a suspect is smart, stuff like this can also be used against the officer. If used in a high-speed chase, an officer may accidentally drive through it and be injured in a resulting crash.

Malodorants
Malodorants use really bad smell to force an enemy out of it's hiding place. It's also useful because as a subject tries to cover his or her face from the smell, this keeps an enemy from having their finger on the trigger. These often use odors from vomit, burnt hair, sewage, rotting flesh and a concoction known as "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malador". These are strictly limited by chemical weapons treaties.

Problems: These sometimes require an officer to wear a gas-mask, which are uncomfortable. And well, they smell.

Stun-Guns
Stun Guns are commonly known. They send out an electrical shock to a person and generally cause them to fall to the ground. This weapon can be used against the officer though because it's easy to use and is used for civil self-defense.

Problems: May or may not work when wet. Anyone can use one of these, so if an officer has one, the suspect might have one too.

Air Tasers
Air Tasers are basically stun guns with a 15 foot range. They fire the same electricity as the stun gun, but it is capable of flying 15 feet and knocking a person to the ground. The electricty is sent through a pair of barbed wires that fire out of the gun and attach to the subject. This gun uses ammunition like clips and has to be reloaded.

Problems: This gun has to reloaded unlike some other weapons. It also lessens the shock every time it is fired (in the same clip).

Pepper Guns
This gun fires pellets of pepper-spray like substance. This keeps the officer as far away from the subject as possible. It does what regular pepper-spray does. It irritates the eyes and causes burning and irritation in the lungs.

Sticky Tazer Gun
This gun fires a pad that is packed with a tazer. For maximum effectiveness, it is covered with a very sticky substance that will attach to just about anything. After it has attached itself, it sends out a series of electric shocks that forces the subject into a seizure like state.

Problems: Despite it's stickiness, it sometimes doesn't stick anyway.

Microwave/Radio Waves
One weapon in testing has been proven to make a subject think much slower than normal by interuppting their brains with very low frequency radio and microwave rays.

Hard Plastic Shell

This is fired from a specialized rifle. It fires a hard plastic or light steel compound. The shell is capable of denting a metal door at close ranges and not many of them would be needed to take down a target. The first weekend it was used it saved the life of a woman that was threatening to commit suicide. The shot broke her arm, but it was better than the alternative.

Problems: Their fired hard enough to break bones, and should they hit someone in the face, it would cause serious damage. But this is why officers fire at the chest.

Ring Gun

This fires a series of plastic rings. It works sort of like a nerf gun, but with heavier rings fired at a faster rate. This is actually effective at up to 100 yards.