Archive for March 2022
The Importance of Providing Proper Context in 9-1-1 Calls
When someone calls 9-1-1 to report “a suspicious person,” they are setting into motion an encounter between law enforcement officers and a citizen. The information that the caller conveys to the 9-1-1 operator, and the information that the dispatcher provides to the responding police officers establishes the context for the inevitable encounter. If the information…
Read MoreThe Elijah McClain Tragedy
The Elijah McClain Case Officer patrol encounters with someone who is “different” A tragic encounter between a citizen and police officers began at 10:40p.m. on August 24, 2019 after a 9-1-1 caller reported an individual who“looked sketchy” and was wearing a ski mask and waving his arms while walking through an apartment community in Aurora, Colorado.…
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