In October 2020, the former Inspector General of Police, Mr Martins Okoth Ochola, issued standard operating procedures (SoPs) on the use of force and firearms by law enforcement agencies during ...

In San Diego, from 2016 to 2022, eight people were killed by police while in crisis, while more than 1,500 were subjected to less-than-lethal force after a 911 mental health-related call. (Medill and ...

Following an order from the Human Rights Commissioner of B.C., the Victoria Police Department has shared its use of force data over six years, with an emphasis on race-based data associated with ...

In a reality where no less-lethal option is 100 percent effective, David Sweeney, who works as an expert witness on police use of force after retiring from the Seattle Police Department ...

A Seattle City Council committee approved the use of a limited number of so-called “less lethal” weapons by the Seattle Police Department ... higher on the force continuum,” he told the ...

By Simon J. Levien The Louisiana State Police for years engaged in a statewide pattern of excessive force during arrests and pursuits, including the unjustified use of stun guns, according to a ...

The special forces opened fire as the men arrived at St Patrick’s Church car park in Clonoe in a stolen lorry they had used in the police station ... said that the use of force in the ambush ...

The heavy military presence doesn’t stop all transgressions in the Vieux Carre, but it does promise swift response times. On Wednesday around 1:30 p.m., it took a state police SWAT team moments ...

Several law enforcement agencies in Maryland declined requests for police assistance for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration because of differing use of force policies in Maryland and ...