Abstract
The Active Denial System (ADS) is unlike any other nonviolent weapon: instead of incapacitating its targets, it forces them to flee, and it does so without being seen or heard. Though it is a promising new crowd-control tool for law-enforcement, excessive-force claims involving the ADS will create a Fourth Amendment jurisprudential paradox. Moreover, the resolution of that paradox could undermine other constitutional principles—like equality, fairness, and free speech. Ultimately, the ADS serves as a warning that without legislation, American jurisprudence may not be ready for the next generation of law-enforcement technology and the novel excessive-force claims sure to follow.
Citation
Brad Turner, Cooking Protestors Alive: The Excessive-Force Implications of the Active Denial System, 11 Duke Law & Technology Review 332-356 (2012)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dltr/vol11/iss2/5
