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South Lake Tahoe police present use-of-force data, school officer report and AB 481 equipment summary
Summary
Lieutenants and sergeants presented the department's 2025 use-of-force statistics, training and oversight processes, a school resource officer summary of campus safety duties and incidents, and the department's annual AB 481 report on "military equipment" (including drones and an armored vehicle); presenters emphasized transparency and routine reviews.
Lieutenant Russell Lyles presented the South Lake Tahoe Police Department's use-of-force framework and 2025 statistics, saying the department documented 39 uses of force out of 26,405 incidents (about 0.15 percent).
"Last year, we had 26,405 incidents. We had 39 uses of force," Lyles said, then walked commissioners through reporting thresholds, injury categories and demographic counts. He tied department practice to guidance from key case law and California standards, citing Graham v. Connor and Tennessee v. Garner as the legal background for the department's reasonableness and deadly-force rules. Lyles described a use-of-force committee and a review…
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