San Francisco trained cops to use deadly force only as a last resort, and officials are learning from its example

San Francisco limited cops' use of deadly force years before officials across the country took a harder look at police reform.
Officer

Police Reform 101: Use of Force

In 1989 the Supreme Court provided law enforcement with a holding in Graham v Connor (Graham), that changed the manner in which courts evaluated use of force claims, changing from a subjective due ...
KESQ News

Use of Force: Inside look at protocols police officers use

Recruits from different law enforcement agencies are the region with one thing in common. They’re completing basic academy at the Ben Clark Training Center in Riverside. A total of 70 hours is ...
Boulder Weekly

Despite new training, Boulder PD use of force not declining

Boulder police are pulling their guns at more than two times the rate they were four years ago — 240 times in 2024 compared with 93 times in 2021, a new use of force dashboard released by the ...
CBS News 8

A look at San Diego Police Use of Force Numbers

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Police are nearly seven times more likely to use force on Black suspects than they are on White and Hispanic suspects, according to data obtained by CBS 8. From 2018 through 2022 ...
OPB

Some Portland police use low-level force at a rate far higher than their peers

Shortly after midnight on Aug. 29, 2022, Portland police Officer Nicholas Wambold responded to reports of an alleged assault outside a bar in southeast Portland. Witnesses described a man who had been ...
The Connecticut Mirror

CT police use-of-force report hampered by incomplete data

We are 90% funded by individual contributions. That means you create the reader-powered journalism that cuts through the noise, and delivers the trusted information Connecticut cares about. The first ...
Politifact

What’s the ‘determinant’ in police use-of-force cases: The civilian’s race or the officer’s?

There is no common definition for “use of force” by police. Data about cases in which police used force is limited, as is data about cases involving “excessive” use of force. Black people are ...
USNI

Report on Use of Force in Cyberspace

There are no internationally accepted criteria yet for determining whether a nation state cyberattack is a use of force equivalent to an armed attack, which could trigger a military response. Likewise ...
Capital Public Radio

New California law requires use-of-force training for security guards, prompted by CapRadio investigation

Security guards in California will soon be required to complete training on when and how to use force before obtaining a license. The legislation was inspired by an investigation CapRadio published ...
Booth School of Business

How to Redesign Police Training to Reduce the Use of Force

Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Philando Castile are just a few of the Black Americans killed by police in recent years whose deaths spurred widespread ...