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Procedures & Policies
De-Escalation Tactics May Have Led to More Attacks on LAPD, Paper Says
The 2018 use-of-force report shows a second year of rising attacks on officers. That year, officers were attacked 784 times, a 6-percent increase over 2017 when there were 741 attacks on officers. In 2016, there were about 590 such attacks.
May 28, 2019
Editor's Notes
Banning Warrior-Style Training
Progressive politicians want to turn you into social workers; someday when they need a warrior they will regret that decision.
April 25, 2019
Patrol
Ax-Wielding Man Accused of Causing OIS in Texas
Officers with the Laredo (TX) Police Department responded to calls of a man wielding an ax in a threatening manner, arriving at the scene to find a man fitting that description.
November 16, 2018
Patrol
Philly Police Issue New Policy on Trespass Enforcement
Officers are now instructed to first attempt to de-escalate and mediate disturbances between property owners and accused offenders.
June 8, 2018
Patrol
Video: Seattle Officer Faces Discipline for Taking Down Ice Ax-Wielding Man
In the video, the man clearly refuses to stop. He also won’t follow commands, even though officers repeatedly order him to “drop the ice ax.”
May 7, 2018
Seattle officers responded to a store about a stolen ice ax. They followed the suspect and made an arrest.
Patrol
New Jersey Officers Praised for Not Shooting Back After One Shot During 2017 Warrant Service
Newark police executed a search warrant on a Goodwin Avenue home on Oct. 14, 2017. During the course of the investigation Detective Joe Soares was shot in the chest. His body armor saved his life.
May 4, 2018
Patrol
Lincoln (NE) Police Department
The Lincoln PD partners with mental health providers to get REAL about helping individuals in a mental health crisis.
May 3, 2018
Lincoln (NE) Police Department officers have referred more than 1,900 people to the Mental Health Association (MHA) of Nebraska's REAL program, and 85% of those people have accepted services. (Photo: Lincoln (NE) Police Department)
Training
De-Escalation Instructor Training
This October, a new de-escalation training methodology was presented to law enforcement administrators, supervisors, and field officers in Delaware that the participants say could become the training model for de-escalation training nationally.
December 7, 2017
In Martinelli's program, for psycho-medical emergencies officers are taught to treat the subject as someone needing medical intervention, not a suspect. Photo: Martinelli and Associates
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Video: Warning Shots Considered as De-Escalation Technique
A new policy endorsing the use of warning shots by police to de-escalate potentially deadly confrontations is driving a rift among some law enforcement leaders who believe the practice only heightens risk and should be abandoned.
October 26, 2017
Warning Shots
Training
Are De-Escalation Policies Dangerous?
The origins of today’s concepts of de-escalation derive from the evolution of crisis communications. While these concepts are practical and effective in some situations, they are useless and even dangerous in others.
October 14, 2017
Photo: Getty Images
Patrol
Chicago Police Adopt De-Escalation in Sweeping Change to Use-Of-Force Policy
The Chicago Police Department announced Wednesday a sweeping change to its use-of-force policy, embracing the concept of de-escalation during critical incidents.
May 18, 2017
Photo: Chicago PD/Facebook
Patrol
De-Escalation is Nothing New
Perhaps the value of the loud noise about de-escalation is to re-emphasize the need to conduct intense training that teaches us to distinguish between those challenging incidents where it is wise to wait, talk, get backup, get nonlethal weapons, get a supervisor, and make a plan versus those incidents where it is proper to take the risk, rush in, and save the life.
April 24, 2017
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