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Office of Police Accountability unveils interactive use‑of‑force dashboards, reports fewer deadly‑force incidents in 2025 to date
Summary
Boise’s Office of Police Accountability launched an interactive public dashboard displaying 2023–24 use‑of‑force and officer demographic data; OPA reported six deadly‑force incidents in 2023–24 investigations and said none have occurred so far in 2025.
Nicole McKay, director of the Office of Police Accountability, and OPA data analyst Lexi Whitmore presented OPA’s semiannual report to the Boise City Council and demonstrated a newly posted interactive data dashboard that shows use‑of‑force incidents, officer demographics, a geographic map of force events and time trends for 2023–24.
Whitmore walked council members through dashboard features and definitions, explaining that "show of force means pointing a weapon at a subject such as aiming a taser, while use of force means discharging a weapon or making physical contact with a subject such as actually firing the taser." She said the public dashboard allows users to filter by year, call type and show‑of‑force versus use‑of‑force, to drill down by…
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