“The commemoration of uses of force, especially with the creation of a plaque displayed in the workplace and signed by fellow deputies leads to many questions,” said Paul Parker, with the review board that investigates misconduct in Sheriff’s Department.
After Sgt. Shawn Silva recorded his 25th shooting of an electronic stun gun, his friends and co-workers in the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department presented him with a custom-made plaque featuring a replica Taser and tally marks denoting each incident.
The plaque is not an official department commendation, said Lt. Amber Baggs, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department. The award has been removed from Silva’s office, she said in an email last week; she did not say when it was removed.“The Sheriff’s Department is disappointed that a supervisor [in] our department had an office display that could be interpreted as glorifying the tasing of individuals,” she wrote.
The San Diego Union-Tribune obtained a photograph of the plaque from someone who said they were bothered by what it signifies but who did not want to be publicly identified.“If this plaque is commemorating uses of force, even if the uses of force were justified, it is definitely concerning,” said Paul Parker, executive officer of the citizens’ review board that investigates misconduct in the county Sheriff’s and Probation departments.
Last September, the Austin American-Statesman reported that officials in the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office were rewarding deputies with steakhouse gift cards after what were deemed “good uses of force.” Margo Frasier is a former sheriff of Travis County, Texas, which includes the capital city of Austin and is just south of Williamson County. Frasier, who served as elected sheriff between 1997 and 2004, now works as a criminal-justice consultant and is a board member of the National Assn. of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement.
Between 2015 and 2020, deputies generally deployed that form of nonlethal force between 164 and 226 times a year, with 2019 and 2020 recording 164 and 166 cases, respectively, records show.
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