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1. Elmerktc says

   April 9, 2025 at 10:13 am

   Escalation practicing for police gains new prominence

   once dispatch came out, All Officer Thaddeus Hines knew was that there would be a person having a “subconscious crisis” in addition to the “Possibly wood a knife, Two elements that will always make any cop’s heart race.

   Hines, 24, Walked up to the ramshackle boardinghouse and gently bumped. A 13 inch knife sat inches width from her right hand.

   for, In these disorders, Police have been educated to meet force with more force, Drawing their weapon and ordering topic to drop that knife.

   immediately, In training academies around the, Officers are watching the video of Hines and others learning de escalation. the practice teaches police to create space, Slow tasks down, Ask open ended questions and hold off reaching for their guns to avoid ramping up conflict.

   In the bay area, The San Francisco Police Department created a exercise and diet program that resulted in a 24percent decrease in use of force in 2019 compared with 2018. The california legislature last year passed a law, authorized by Gov. Gavin Newsom (deborah), Requiring de escalation practicing police, Which departments in Berkeley and San Diego have already commenced implementing. And are expected by law shows that one form of de escalation training run by the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) severely cut use of force incidents and injuries to citizens and officers for one big city department.

   “When we first started this whole journey, PERF accounting Director Chuck Wexler said, “The conventional wisdom was: ‘Cops have to make split second decisions you can receive officers hurt.’ Now here we are in 2020 and also a study that says not only was there a decline in use of force and citizen injury, But the decline is in officer injuries,

   Police chiefs propose ways to ‘suicide by cop’

   per year since 2015, Police officers in the united states have killed about 1,000 adult men and women, in [url=https://issuu.com/idateasia/docs/is-idateasia-com-a-scam]idateasia scam[/url] a database compiled by The Washington Post. About 60percent of those cases involved a subject with a gun and thus weren’t individuals for de escalation, Wexler had said. PERF’s program addresses about 200 of tenacious cases, In which individuals in mental crisis and often intent on committing “committing suicide by cop” lawsuits Wexler calls “legal but awful,

   One such case appears to have happened October, When Philadelphia police shot and killed a man drawing near them with a knife. The shooting sparked violent encounters in the city, With at least one council member criticizing officers and saying they will have employed de escalation.

   At a recent workout in Montgomery County, maryland, PERF trainer Tom Wilson showed Montgomery police trainers how to teach de escalation to officers and recruits. The session mixed theory with 17 real world case studies including Hines’s case presented through videos captured by officers’ body worn cameras, Citizen cellphones and security cameras.

   “country wide, When we begin, It’s side faces, It’s mean seeks, Wilson said of skepticism from police officers. “And want that we wrap up with a day, these are like, ‘Oh, I ensure it is. You’re not seeking to me killed. You’re just giving me more feasible.or,–”

   The Montgomery training colleges also watched officers in St. Louis respond to a report of a shoplifter who had just taken two drinks and a doughnut from a relaxation store and was out on the sidewalk with a knife. events later, As captured by a citizen cell, A police car opened up, One of its front wheels advertised onto the sidewalk. Two reps got out. some of the shoplifter, together with his knife out, wandered toward them.

   “What do you all think, Wilson wondered.

   “reps still rush in, understood Montgomery Lt. Marc Erme, Who later talked about tha permanent hero and warrior mentality among police. “They hear chef’s knives. In their minds, It’s an emergency. They’re choosing. They’re fast closing that distance. They’re appropriate drawing their gun with the whole ‘Drop the knife! Drop the cutting knife!’ And now it’s just closed off all connecting,

   “very slowly it down, Another officer retorted, “Until he starts killing the shop owner. And then it becomes that ‘you’re not doing your job.'”

   you cannot assume all de escalation effort ends well. A Hillsborough state, Fla, Sheriff’s deputy was stabbed in the neck in oct while he “Used de escalation practice” in order to calm a man in mental crisis, The sheriff discussed. The deputy was not closely hurt.

   But for de escalation to achieve its purpose, training companies say, police departments must get buy in from skeptical officers.

   Before training presented in Louisville, Sgt. Justin Witt said he visited nearly three dozen roll calls to prep and educate officers. Their biggest concern, Voiced time and again: “you’ll get us killed,

   “Just because we’re posting on de escalation doesn’t mean we’re losing our level of officer safety, Witt told the officers. “It’s simply to give you more options, a bit longer to allow the de escalation with the suspect. Try to get behind cover don’t forget go up the ‘use of force’ ladder,

   Officers have long been trained to move from verbal commands to hands on control to Taser to gun. They’ve also been taught to think that if a knife wielding subject is within 21feet, Shooting them is applicable. Louisville evolved its use of force policy “From that old progression to a cycle of force” what options, using nonlethal, Are invariably considered, Witt wanted to say.

   In september 2017, Baltimore police used de escalation industrial roofing a man with a knife from harming himself and others. (training video: Baltimore Police category)

   final results, Criminologists talk about, Have succeeded. A recent examination of PERF’s training for the Louisville Metro Police Department showed 28percent fewer use of force incidents by officers, 26percent fewer injuries to citizens, And 36percent fewer injuries to officers. After authorities were trained, your research surveyed them between January 2019 and February 2020.

   “These outcome was beyond chance, Concluded case study, Headed by higher education of Cincinnati criminologist Robin S. Engel and funded by the university’s joint project with the global Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) And the guts for Police Research and Policy. “These significant reductions in force and injuries occurred above and beyond observed changes in arrest patterns,

   Louisville police averaged 51 use of force effects per month from 2010 through 2014, 40 per month from 2015 from 2018, just to about 30 per month early this year.

   around March 13, A Louisville officer shot and killed Breonna Taylor as police conducted a no knock search warrant at her apartment, Igniting more protests. so Engel, PERF and Louisville officials all noted that Taylor’s shooting involved a man firing a gun at officers, a position in which de escalation does not apply.

   “If every police division were to implement this, I think we’d look to save 200 to 300 lives a year, Wexler being said. He said 85 police agencies have told PERF they’ve included its training, And officials from 600 more agencies have attended sessions on it.

   “we can easily apply time in our research, We end up watching changes in officer attitudes, But very often do we find changes in actual officer behavior, Engel said of the Louisville online survey. “To find such a strong impact on police citizen interplay is really encouraging,

   Then Assistant Chief Robert Schroeder brought the PERF exercise program to the Louisville department and agreed to the study with Engel. He said officers sought after the new approach, With 80 percent saying it was useful and they would recommend it to others.

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2. Tisa Smith says

   April 8, 2019 at 8:55 am

   I would like to list our Seafair Sanctioned event with you for 2019.

   Tour de Terrace has been a Mountlake Terrace, WA community event for 26 years now. We recently lost our founder and Mayor, Jerry E Smith, but the Smith family plans to keep the event going strong.

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3. Linda Klinefelter says

   August 21, 2017 at 11:11 am

   How can we list an event with you?

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   • Melody says

     June 18, 2018 at 1:49 pm

     Hi Linda,

     If you still have an event you’d like to list here, shoot us an email at frugallivingnw@gmail.com or leave the details here in the comments.

     Thanks!

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