The Alternative® offers an immediately available, less-lethal option to de-escalate specific scenarios. Lives can be saved and liability exposure mitigated with The Alternative®.
Less-lethal options for today’s policing offer a balanced approach in protecting the communities served. They provide a role as de-escalation tools to protect individuals involved in a critical situation, while also guarding against serious injury or loss of life. Prioritizing life and enabling safe and effective law enforcement operations is key in the landscape of less-lethal options.
When a department incorporates and prioritizes less-lethal options and tactics, the messaging to the community they serve is one of valuing life and a commitment to resolving critical situations with the least amount of harm possible. Trust is built between law enforcement and the public through this prioritization of and commitment to less-lethal intent, and readily available less-lethal options enable officers to make informed decisions in high-stress situations.
With The Alternative® from Alternative Ballistics, we offer a unique less-lethal option that takes up very little space on an officer’s duty belt, thigh or vest, and is ready to use within seconds. Our goal is to provide modern-day law enforcement officers with an opportunity to have immediate access to a technology that will save lives and enhance their own safety by providing seamless protective cover during deployment. The Alternative® includes a bright orange docking unit that quickly modifies a service weapon to a less-lethal option that employs bullet capture technology. With optimal range up to 40 feet away, an officer can maintain a safe distance from a threat while a fired bullet embeds within The Alternative® projectile, becoming a new single unit impact round, intended to temporarily incapacitate a subject with little risk of serious or critical injury. The goal of The Alternative® is to enable officers to safely effect an arrest while preserving life.
The main difference between The Alternative® and other less-lethal tools is the platform from which it is deployed. It involves a conceptual shift in that an officer instantly converts a duty weapon into a less-lethal tool, but preserves the lethal force option in the case that the situation necessitates a change of force. There may be preconceived concerns about less-lethal technology incorporated into a lethal platform. However, the extensive instruction and practice provided by Alternative Ballistics when training a department’s officers mitigates this concern.
It's important that law enforcement be open to new technologies and methods of operating to safely achieve their goals of public safety for the communities they serve. The Alternative® is a new technological tool that officers can utilize in specific situations. It’s readily available, lightweight, carried on a duty belt, and unlike other less-lethal devices, cannot be used against officers if it gets in the wrong hands. We firmly believe in The Alternative’s® potential as a less-lethal tool that deserves a place in modern policing to save lives and optimize officer safety in the line of duty.
