Staying safe amid crime waves is a major concern for many today, especially for people in America’s big cities. Given recent reports of violent crime, having self-defense tools on hand and knowing how ...

Reviews by two Ohio agencies concluded that law enforcement officials were justified in using pepper spray while breaking up the on-field brawl after the Michigan-Ohio State game in November. The ...

The D.C. Circuit said the federal government had shown that pepper spray can cause "serious bodily injury" and that the three men used it that way, therefore an enhancement was properly applied to the ...

When police arrived on the scene, they found Ishmail Thompson standing naked outside a hotel near Harrisburg, Pa., after he had just punched a man. After they arrested him, a mental health specialist ...

PHOENIX — A bill approved by Arizona legislators in the lower house would allow anyone to carry nonlethal weapons such as pepper spray and stun guns on to a college campus. House Bill 2172 passed ...