Police have long known the dangers of holding people in prone restraint. So why do so many keep dying?
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As far back as the 1990s, medical experts and law enforcement officials have been aware of the dangers of prone restraint. A number of organizations and law enforcement agencies, including the US Department of Justice, the Chicago police department and the New Orleans police department, warned officers of these dangers and advised them on how to minimize risks.
Many training manuals have since been updated to address the risks of prone restraint and the importance of using the recovery position. Ohio state police officers are forbidden from using prone restraint. A Nevada law forbids the practice. In California, a law that became effective in 2022, AB 490, bans any maneuvers that put people at risk of being unable to breathe due to the position of their body, or positional asphyxia, a common cause of death in prone restraint cases.
But a new review of law enforcement data shows that, despite growing awareness of the dangers of prone restraint, in California the problem is pervasive. After the passage of AB 71, in 2015, California began tracking data about when people died after police use of force. Between 2016 and 2022, at least 22 people have died in the state after being restrained stomach-down by law enforcement officers, according to a new analysis of currently available state use-of-force data by the California Reporting Project, the California Newsroom and the Guardian. Our examination also included police reports, death investigations, district attorney reviews, body-worn camera footage, 911 calls and lawsuits.
It’s interesting how much attention an average of about 2.5 deaths per year is getting.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg57118/html/CHRG-106shrg57118.htm
Last year, NAMI members in Connecticut played a critical role in
getting the Hartford Courant to investigate the use of restraint in
psychiatric facilities–which led to publication of the series that
documented 142 actual deaths around the country over a decade and that
commissioned a Harvard University report that estimated between 50 and
150 deaths annually as a result of restraint.https://www.agendaalliance.org/news/32-women-die-after-being-restrained/
Thirty two women died after experiencing restraint over a five year period
Reality is that medical ‘professionals’ kill more people a year via restraints than any accounting of unjustified police shootings do. I wonder why we don’t see any protests there.
Literally whataboutism
This entire thread is. There hasn’t been a reasonable thought on the internet about the police that hasn’t been blasted by both extremes for the last 5 years or more.
I genuinely think the people who can’t shut the fuck up about hating the police are the ones who want and need them the most, they are like abused spouses.
And I can guarantee at least a few of those pigs got erections as they felt the life drain out of their victim.
Cop darkweb hangouts are just FUCKED
Sorry, what? Gosh. We’re talking regular old cops downloading Tor and heading to something like blueline.onion?
No most of them use clearweb proxies. I mean I understand not everyone understands how the darkweb works but maybe be a little less patronizing on things you don’t know shit about?
Patronizing? Sorry if that’s how I came across. I just haven’t touched anything dark-web related in over a decade and that’s the mental image I get when people bring it up. And it’s hard to get most people that aren’t really into tech to use anything other than Chrome or the preinstalled browser.
There are other options nowadays that weren’t available a decade ago.
You can be on TOR within 40 seconds of download and on mobile its even easier.
And again, clearweb proxies.
You YOURSELF admit you are a decade out of date yet still arrogant in your ignorance.
Stop running your mouth and put up a link
