The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners approved new policies Tuesday that call on officers to use more de-escalation techniques before resorting to deadly force.
The changes come amid a heightened focus on police shootings, both in Los Angeles and across the country, and as the commission has worked to decrease the number of deadly encounters between officers and the public.
One of the changes, which will be added to the preamble of the department’s official use-of-force policy, states that officers “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.”
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