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The fact that half still haven’t been vaccinated suggests a large number of officers have chosen not to receive the shots. An informal survey of department personnel in January found that only 60% of respondents said they would accept the vaccine when offered.
That hesitance comes despite a large number of COVID-19 cases among officers. As of Tuesday, nearly 2,700 LAPD personnel had become infected by the coronavirus. Most of those infected have since returned to work, but nine LAPD personnel have died as a result of COVID-19 with the most recent, Sgt. Anthony White, a 31-year veteran of the force and a husband and father of two, dying April 15.
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Months after putting a ban on police from using chokeholds except in life-or-death situations into official policy, the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission on Thursday will again consider removing that one exception.
The proposal, which has been discussed at two of the commission’s meetings in the last month, has the support of at least three out of six commissioners on the oversight board. But it has also received some pushback from the Milwaukee Police Department and the union representing its rank-and-file officers, the Milwaukee Police Association.
Officers had not previously been trained to use the technique, either.
But Acting Chief Jeffrey Norman, who is a lawyer, has argued a total ban with no exceptions would be difficult to enforce since it would conflict with self-defense rights guaranteed to all citizens in state law. And union officials want to ensure officers won’t be penalized criminally or internally for defending their lives.
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Internal affairs investigators reviewing hundreds of allegations of misconduct and excessive force by other Los Angeles police officers during last summer’s mass protests against police brutality are ruling on the side of the officers in most cases.
An internal report, submitted by LAPD Chief Michel Moore to the civilian Police Commission on Friday, noted the department had received more than 600 allegations against officers. Some of those were duplicate complaints about the same incident, and from those launched 210 investigations into 223 officers 73 of which were related to the alleged use of non-deadly force, and five of which involved the alleged use of deadly force.