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Santa Barbara Police report 109 use-of-force incidents in 2024; supervisors review every case
Summary
At a Santa Barbara Police Commission meeting, the Police Department presented its 2024 use-of-force review, reporting 109 incidents out of 53,715 calls for service and describing procedures for supervisor and multi-level review.
The Santa Barbara Police Department told the Police Commission that it recorded 109 use-of-force incidents in 2024 out of 53,715 calls for service and that supervisors are required to respond to and document every use of force.
The department said the cases are routed through multiple levels of review and that supervisors must debrief officers after every use-of-force incident to identify training and procedural improvements.
The report — presented by Sergeant Mike Brown of the department’s Professional Standards Unit — described how officers apply the legal standard for force and summarized the department’s categories of force, de-escalation expectations and data for 2024. "For this year, we had a hundred 9 incidents of use of force, and that's out of 53,715 calls for service," Sergeant Mike Brown said. "That means that 99.8% of our calls of service did not require use of force."…
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