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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
What guaranteed de-escalation options are even available in a situation like that?
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Nothing is guaranteed, but patience and calling for backup is considered one of the most easiest and most common de-escalation technique. It is mandatory in a lot of police departments for situations like this.
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2 This section compares eight various police departments'
approaches to de-escalation training, including departments with robust
policies that have been notably successful in reducing excessive use-offorce complaints and fatalities. Common tactics used include reality-based
training, verbal skills training, and calling for back-up
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Pretty much this just goes over a bunch of examples, including those close to this one, where the officer was chastised for not waiting for backup:
Spoiler!
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The report concluded that Tensing
"violated standard police practice" and should have de-escalated the
situation by calling for back-up
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The officer should have created distance and called for
backup instead of allowing the situation to turn tragic
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Even if Encinia
perceived a threat, he had alternatives available to him other than attempting
to remove Bland from her car-the simplest option was to wait for backup
to arrive
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https://www.apmreports.org/story/201...ation-training
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Officers need to "practice patience," he said, adding that it appears White tried to resolve the situation too quickly, especially given that Touchtone was unarmed. "Things don't have to be resolved within the first 30 seconds .... Let him sing all day. Let him stand outside his car and sing until backup comes."
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But in the rest of the cases, where people were holding knives, toy weapons, or no weapons at all, police might have taken additional steps, like using communication skills or waiting for backup, to try to defuse the situations.
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In several places, police policy is to wait for backup b
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/c...9e8832743.html
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In his Sept. 30 email to command staff, Koval noted that despite the police department’s training emphasis on waiting for backup, “It has become painfully evident that this is not happening as much as I would like to see.”
“I am concerned,” Koval added in the email, “that our ‘business efficiency’ is trumping and thereby potentially compromising officer/public safety.”
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
It's been mentioned calling for backup, or having another cruiser pull in front blocking in the car, but that's actually not de-escalation, that is increasing the force of power and likely to also cause a reaction.
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Well his is the exact opposite taught in de-escalation training around the world. So maybe you know better, but you should be able to provide some evidence to the contrary then.