{"id":72758,"date":"2017-04-19T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=72758"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:40:19","slug":"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Now Requires Officers to &#8216;De-escalate&#8217; Before Using Deadly Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72759\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72759\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAPD officers hold a skirmish line against members of Occupy Los Angeles, participating alongside planned May Day marches in downtown LA. 5\/1\/2012. \u00a0(<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_Police_Department#\/media\/File:Occupy_LA_LAPD_Line.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The civilian-led Los Angeles Police Commission voted yesterday to require officers to \u201cde-escalate\u201d all situations before resorting to deadly force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers shall attempt to control an incident by using time, distance, communications and available resources in an effort to de-escalate the situation, whenever it is safe and reasonable to do so,\u201d reads the addition to the department\u2019s use of force policy.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes as part of a two-year, high-profile campaign to curb the number of police-involved shootings in the city, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-lapd-commission-shootings-20170416-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/14544-presscdn-0-64.pagely.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/UOF-Executive-Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\">Use of Force<\/a> report from the LAPD found that an average of 44.6 officer-involved shootings took place in LA between 2011 and 2015. Only Chicago has a higher rate of police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>The department already trains officers in de-escalation tactics and mandates that all officers carry Tasers. But the new policy would allow Police Chief Charlie Beck and the five-member Police Commission to discipline or fire an officer if they determine not enough was done to defuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commission President Matthew Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpr.org\/programs\/take-two\/2017\/04\/17\/56217\/lapd-to-adopt-new-use-of-force-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"lapd-now-requires-officers-de-escalate-using-deadly-force\" title=\"LAPD Now Requires Officers to 'De-escalate' Before Using Deadly Force\">has said<\/a> officers should still use deadly force when confronted by armed suspects, but he also expects more officers to be found out of policy for failing to de-escalate tense situations.<\/p>\n<p>LA police unions have objected to the change. Craig Lally, the president of Los Angeles Police Protective League, said the commissioners are giving in to politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese officers, a lot of them are shutting down because their career might be in danger. They might lose their house, their family, their kids because they make one bad move,\u201d Lally told the LA Times. \u201cIf you make a mistake, you\u2019re going to\u2026go through hell for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But social justice activists aren\u2019t happy either.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Akili, a community organizer and former legislative staffer from South Los Angeles who has been active in the Black Lives Matter movement, told the Times he doesn\u2019t believe the commission was willing to \u201crock the boat\u201d to bring about substantial change.<\/p>\n<p>Akili believes the current standard for justifying police shootings is too low, such as an officer thinking someone was going for his or her gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat bar has to be raised,\u201d Akili said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has worked to balance both sides. He believes the commission has a \u201cmoral obligation to preserve life when we can,\u201d but commissioners have also participated in ride-alongs with officers to learn what kinds of threats the police face every day, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been second-guessed by the Police Protective League and we\u2019ve been second-guessed by activists that come to our meetings,\u201d he said. \u201cI won\u2019t allow myself to have my decisions governed by whether I\u2019m making someone happy or making someone upset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The civilian-led Los Angeles Police Commission voted yesterday to require officers to \u201cde-escalate\u201d all situations before resorting to deadly force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":72759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,593],"tags":[132,291,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-dgu","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LAPD Now Requires Officers to &#039;De-escalate&#039; 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