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Community Feedback and Final Recommendations: Restrict shooting at moving vehicles
The Office of Police Oversight reviewed current best practices, including the consensus among experts that shooting at or from moving vehicles is dangerous and rarely effective even when officers are trained. Research shows that shooting at moving vehicles is a dangerous and ineffective tactic with a high risk of injuring bystanders.
APD’s current policy is silent on the issue of shooting from a moving vehicle and does not sufficiently restrict shooting at moving vehicles. Increasing restrictions on shooting at moving vehicles have been shown to contribute to a reduction in officer-involved shootings.
Background
The Office of Police Oversight (OPO) developed final recommendations to revise the Austin Police Department’s (APD) use-of-force policies. The policy areas covered in this report include restricting shooting at moving vehicles, exhausting all alternatives before using deadly force, de-escalation, duty to intervene, banning chokeholds and strangleholds, and warning before shooting.
OPO’s final recommendations incorporated community feedback and compared APD’s current use-of-force policies to national best practices in policing. This report concludes OPO’s three-phase approach to facilitating the rewrite of APD’s General Orders related to six use-of-force policy topics. The revision of the Austin Police Department’s General Orders is a part of the City Council resolutions passed in June 2020.
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Comentarios de la comunidad y recomendaciones finales: Restricción de disparar a vehículos en movimiento
La Oficina de Fiscalización de la Policía revisó las mejores prácticas actuales, incluyendo el consenso entre los expertos que disparar a y desde vehículos en movimiento es peligroso y pocas veces efectivo incluso con oficiales entrenados. La investigación indica que disparar a vehículos en movimiento es una táctica peligrosa e ineficiente con un alto riesgo de lesionar a terceros.
La política actual de APD no habla sobre este asunto de disparar desde un vehículo en movimiento y no limita suficientemente disparar a vehículos en movimiento. Se ha comprobado que aumentar las restricciones para disparar a vehículos en movimiento contribuye a una reducción en tiroteos con oficiales involucrados.
Antecedentes
La Oficina de Fiscalización de la Policía (OPO) creó recomendaciones finales para revisar las políticas de uso de fuerza del Departamento de Policía de Austin (APD). Las áreas de las políticas cubiertas en este reporte incluyen restringir disparar a vehículos en movimiento, agotar todas las alternativas antes de usar fuerza letal, desescalar, deber de intervenir, prohibir las llaves al cuello y las llaves estranguladoras y avisar antes de disparar.
Las recomendaciones finales de la OPO incorporan las opiniones de la comunidad y comparan las políticas actuales de uso de fuerza de APD con las mejores prácticas nacionales sobre labor policial. Este reporte concluye el método de tres fases de la OPO para facilitar la nueva redacción de las Órdenes Generales de APD relacionadas con seis temas de políticas de uso de fuerza. Esta revisión de las Órdenes Generales del Departamento de Policía de Austin forma parte de las resoluciones del Concejo Municipal aprobadas en junio de 2020.
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Community Feedback and Final Recommendations: Restrict shooting at moving vehicles
The Office of Police Oversight reviewed current best practices, including the consensus among experts that shooting at or from moving vehicles is dangerous and rarely effective even when officers are trained. Research shows that shooting at moving vehicles is a dangerous and ineffective tactic with a high risk of injuring bystanders.
APD’s current policy is silent on the issue of shooting from a moving vehicle and does not sufficiently restrict shooting at moving vehicles. Increasing restrictions on shooting at moving vehicles have been shown to contribute to a reduction in officer-involved shootings.
Background
The Office of Police Oversight (OPO) developed final recommendations to revise the Austin Police Department’s (APD) use-of-force policies. The policy areas covered in this report include restricting shooting at moving vehicles, exhausting all alternatives before using deadly force, de-escalation, duty to intervene, banning chokeholds and strangleholds, and warning before shooting.
OPO’s final recommendations incorporated community feedback and compared APD’s current use-of-force policies to national best practices in policing. This report concludes OPO’s three-phase approach to facilitating the rewrite of APD’s General Orders related to six use-of-force policy topics. The revision of the Austin Police Department’s General Orders is a part of the City Council resolutions passed in June 2020.