The City has agreed to pay $748,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Black Lives Matter protesters who said the NYPD illegally targeted demonstrators with Long Range Acoustic Devices [LRAD] in 2014.

LRAD sells sound cannons to yacht owners as a means of keeping pirates from boarding. In 2005, an LRAD sound cannon staved off an attack by pirates on a five-star German-built cruise ship, called ...

Batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets may be less than lethal, but as protesters have said, and as media outlets have reported, they can still do plenty of damage. The same has been argued about a ...

NEW YORK — Police officers first deployed the earsplitting beeps against protesters more than a decade ago in Pittsburgh: painfully loud noises emitted from a powerful speaker atop a police vehicle.