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2. Baton (law enforcement) - Wikipedia

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   Early-20th-century police truncheons in the Edinburgh Police Centre Museum A modern wooden baton. In the Victorian era, police in London carried truncheons about one foot long called billy clubs. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, this name was first recorded in 1848 as slang for a burglars' crowbar. The meaning "policeman's club" is ...

3. Club (weapon) - Wikipedia

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   Police forces and their predecessors have traditionally favored the use, whenever possible, of less lethal weapons than guns or blades. Until recent times, when alternatives such as tasers and capsicum spray became available, this category of policing weapon has generally been filled by some form of wooden club variously termed a truncheon, baton, nightstick, or lathi.

4. Monadnock Lifetime Products - Wikipedia

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   Monadnock manufactures several types of police baton, including traditional straight batons, long riot sticks, side-handle nightsticks including the PR-24, and both friction-locking and mechanically locking telescoping batons.

5. Espantoon - Wikipedia

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   The espantoon (/ ɛ s ˈ p ə n. t uː n / es-PƏN-tewn) is an ornate straight wooden baton, equipped with a long swiveled leather strap for twirling. It originated in, and is still strongly associated with, the Baltimore Police Department, the police department of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. The term is considered ...

6. Nightstick - Wikipedia

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   Nightstick or night stick may refer to: Club (weapon), a short staff or stick wielded as a weapon Baton (law enforcement), a compliance tool and defensive weapon used by law-enforcement officers; Nightstick (band), an American sludge metal band from Weymouth, Massachusetts; Nightstick, a 1987 Canadian-American made for television action film

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   Shows like "American Pickers," "Antiques Roadshow," "Flea Market Flip" and "Storage Wars," have brought picking and reselling to the forefront. Hidden Gems: Man travels the country searching for ...

8. Baton passed from one Mike to another: Tautin retires as ...

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   Jul. 8—The chief who led the city through the pandemic and a related labor shortage that strained the abilities of Meadville Police Department hung up his handcuffs on Friday, retiring after 23 ...

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