Rethinking policing: How Tempe de-escalation class changes officer behavior
Tempe police redesigned their training on de-escalation techniques, and Arizona State University researchers studied the results finding changes in body language, rapport, and even how often tickets were issued.
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TEMPE, AZ â Tempe police redesigned their training on de-escalation techniques, and Arizona State University researchers studied the results finding changes in body language, rapport, and even how often tickets were issued.
More than 100 Tempe officers went through the one-day training in 2020, just before the pandemic started.
ASU researchers, led by Criminal Justice Professor Michael White, studied how the training played out on the streets. Over four months, they watched hundreds of hours of body-cam video from trained officers. The ASU team compared those videos to videos of untrained officers and inputted 140 categories of information.
The successor to Napaâs first minority police chief may be â at least in the near term â the first woman to lead city law enforcement.
Sylvia Macrae Moir, who spent four years as chief of police in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Arizona before resigning in October, will become interim chief of Napa Police pending an approval vote Tuesday by the City Council. The candidacy of Moir, whose law enforcement career has spanned more than three decades, was disclosed in a council meeting agenda published Thursday morning.
If cleared by the council, the 55-year-old Moir would become Napaâs first-ever female police chief as well as the first openly gay person to hold the position, replacing Robert Plummer, the first Black leader of the force.
Tempe has become the first city in Maricopa County to align its police department’s use-of-force policies with a national campaign called Eight Can’t Wait.
The advocacy organization Campaign Zero has been urging police departments nationwide to adopt this set of eight policies since the death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
The goal is prevent civilian deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers. The eight policies include things like banning chokeholds and requiring officers to intervene when colleagues are getting too violent.
Over 300 cities nationwide have added some or all of these policies since last June, as protesters have increased demands for police reform. At Tempe s 2021 Martin Luther King Diversity Award Ceremony on Friday afternoon, Mayor Corey Woods called these eight policies commonsense solutions that support both citizens and police.
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Tempe police officer receives disciplinary action following controversial stop
The Tempe Police Department said a controversial officer will stay on the job following a settlement that is set to cost taxpayers $300,000. Author: Niala Charles Updated: 3:44 AM MST December 11, 2020
TEMPE, Ariz. The Tempe Police Department said a controversial officer will stay on the job following a settlement that is set to cost taxpayers $300,000.
In August, Officer Ronald Kerzaya was placed under investigation after he held Hawthorn Suites hotel employee, Tre Cumpian, at gunpoint while he was instructed to go after a suspect that didn’t match this employee’s description.
Kerzaya was called to the hotel to look for an armed white man, but stopped Cumpian instead, even though he is Black and was in uniform. After the internal investigation, he was found to be in violation of policy.