The Sheriff's Office phased out the controversial "hogtying method" in favor of a newer and more humane WRAP system for restraining, aiming to modernize practices and prioritize safety and ethics.
next. we learned that and this stood out to me, and even the ag pointed this out as egregious. one of the details is when arrestees would claim that they couldn t breathe, the officers would respond with, you can breathe, you re talking now. i have heard that, chief, as a defense to some of the maneuvers from law enforcement over years. there have been law enforcement analysts on this network who have said, well, if they re talking, they can breathe. how does that resonate across the profession to hear the ag call that out? yeah, first of all, i m not one of those analysts that said that because that is just absolutely not true. if a person says they can t breathe, then you have a responsibility to see to it that their airway is clear and that they don t have difficulty in breathing. that could be from a knee on the neck, that could be from pressure, positional asphyxia, all of those things. and that s been in police