(AP) --A suburban Chicago police department is testing a new device that restrains suspects by shooting a Kevlar rope that wraps tightly around the person's body. The Beacon-News reports officers ...

WESTCHESTER, Ill. — Some suburban police officers using a tactic borrowed from the Old West In Westchester, the police force is testing a high-tech rope to catch criminals. The BolaWrap devic… ...

The lasso works by shooting a taut Kevlar rope at the attacker. The rope is tipped with hooks to attach to clothes and make escaping the lasso more difficult.

The wrap is a ten-foot-long Kevlar rope with weighted barbs on the ends to catch on clothing. ... The velocity of the rope when it is fired is 300-400 feet per second.

A ballyhooed rope- and-harness safety device distributed to city firefighters just last week has already been suspended from use – after one of the lines used in the survival gear frayed duri… ...

With one click, the device, which uses a laser to help an officer aim, shoots out an 8-foot kevlar rope. The rope wraps around a subject and hooks on each end are intended to latch onto the person ...

Then, the kevlar rope shoots out to that exact point, and hooks onto the person's clothes. That stops them from moving, and gives officers more time to respond. It's effective from 10-25 feet away.

Kevlar may be best known for its use in bullet-proof vests, ... to speaker cones, and even rope. The discovery of Kevlar was more or less accidental, ...