San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore phasing out pepper spray in local juvenile detention facilities, citing concerns that probation officers use the chemical agent instead of trying ...

Marines set to graduate from the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group school had the misfortune of becoming OC spray-certified last week — but managed to do so with a little creative flair. A handful ...

Nearly four years ago, Los Angeles County supervisors voted to stop probation officers from using pepper spray at juvenile facilities, likening its use to an “assault” — only to see the ban go ...

Detainees at a state-run immigration camp in Florida were pepper sprayed by officers in October. The incident occurred after ...

Security guards at a Darwin nightclub have been confronted with pepper spray two weekends in a row as the first month of a Northern Territory-wide trial of the weapons comes to an end. On September 1, ...