Use of Force

The Vallejo Police Department is among several law enforcement agencies across the country reassessing use-of-force policies and is asking for the public’s help. Kris Sanchez reports.

Vallejo police spokesperson Brittany K. Jackson talks in depth about the department reassessing its use of force policies during an interview with Kris Sanchez.

The Vallejo Police Department is among several law enforcement agencies across the country reassessing use-of-force policies and is asking for the public’s help.

A Southern California sheriff’s deputy is under criminal investigation after he was recorded on video kicking a pursuit suspect in the head while the man appeared to be surrendering.

Criminal charges have been refiled against two sheriff’s deputies over the 2015 beating of a surrendering suspect. But charges won’t be filed against police who shot a knife-wielding man in a killing that sparked public protests, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office announced Thursday.

Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, delivered damning testimony in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, saying, “No reasonable officer would have believed that that was an appropriate, acceptable or reasonable use of force.”

Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department, an expert witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, testified Tuesday that the use of force on George Floyd was excessive. Once Floyd was on the ground, “at that point, the officers… should have slowed down or stopped their force as well.”

George Floyd’s final moments are sparking national conversations about ethnicity, equality and police use of force in America. NBC Bay Area has been covering this movement and returns of some of its Investigative Unit’s recent reporting on law enforcement and their use of force.

George Floyd’s final moments are sparking national conversations about ethnicity, equality and police use of force in America. NBC Bay Area has been covering this movement and returns of some of its Investigative Unit’s recent reporting on law enforcement and their use of force.

George Floyd’s final moments are sparking national conversations about ethnicity, equality and police use of force in America. NBC Bay Area has been covering this movement and returns of some of its Investigative Unit’s recent reporting on law enforcement and their use of force.

A Palo Alto man whose late-night encounter with a police officer in July 2019 outside a local donut shop left him with a fractured bone in his face filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the Palo Alto Police Department. Senior investigative reporter Stephen Stock reports.

Some prominent Bay Area law enforcement officials now say that in wake of the tragic death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, all law enforcement departments nationwide should be required to turn over data showing how often their officers use force to make arrests or otherwise control the public. Stephen Stock reports.

Some prominent Bay Area law enforcement officials now say that in wake of the tragic death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, all law enforcement departments nationwide should be required to turn over data showing how often their officers use force to make arrests or otherwise control the public.

Lawsuits and other public records reveal that a small group of Vallejo police officers are connected to most use of force incidents. Senior investigative reporter Stephen Stock reports.

Lawsuits and other public records reveal that a small group of Vallejo police officers are connected to most use of force incidents.

Julio Arevalo said he just wanted to get his son a donut when he left his home at the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park late one night last July. He never came home with that donut. In the morning, Arevalo says he woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed with a fractured bone in his face and a brace around…

One Palo Alto officer has been named in a third civil rights lawsuit, raising questions and increasing concerns about the department’s transparency and use of force. Stephen Stock reports.