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Sheriff reports decline in county use-of-force incidents; supervisors press for wider crisis-response coverage
Summary
The sheriff's annual use-of-force report showed a year-over-year reduction in incidents across custody and law enforcement bureaus. Supervisors pressed the department on field clinician coverage for crisis response and asked for more granular data on incidents involving people with disabilities.
The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office reported a continued reduction in use-of-force incidents for 2024 during a public presentation on April 22, and supervisors pressed department leaders on mental-health response coverage and on better public reporting of incident details.
The key figures: the sheriff's presentation showed 508 custody-bureau use-of-force incidents and 113 use-of-force incidents attributed to law-enforcement operations in 2024. The sheriff's team said the custody bureau recorded a 21.4% decrease from 2022 to 2023 and a further roughly 1% decrease in 2024 compared with 2023. Most incidents involved takedowns, restraints and compliance holds; county nursing staff assessed 99% of…
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