The policy change is expected this month, four years after a civilian police auditor urged the department to join major cities, including Oakland and San Francisco, in the practice.
SAN JOSE — Four years after it was recommended by the city’s civilian police auditor, the San Jose Police Department is expected to begin classifying instances where officers point their guns at people as a use of force.that was formally reviewed Tuesday, police Chief Anthony Mata wrote that SJPD expects to update its duty manual to include the change by the end of the month.
According to Mata’s memo, officers have already been documenting when they point their firearms at people during enforcement stops and other encounters. But to this point, those occurrences have not been factored when the department tallies and analyzes use of force incidents, even thoughafter the IPA’s office first made the recommendation in 2019.
The IPA’s office also supported its recommendation by arguing the lingering effects on someone who has a gun pointed at them: “Community members have indicated that experiencing this kind of force can be traumatic and intense; the memory of the encounter can resonate for years. It is frightening and suggests the possible imminent use of deadly force.”
The change will almost certainly result in an increase, at least in the short term, of overall use of force incidents recorded by the department. When the IPA’s office first made its recommendation in 2019, it cited how in San Francisco, the policy change revealed that 41% of first-quarter force reports that year involved officers pointing their guns at people.
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