Django Sibley, new executive director of the Los Angeles Police Commission, emphasizes de-escalation and community engagement based on his experience policing in England.
It wasn’t long after becoming a police officer in the northern English town of Hull in the 1980s that Django Sibley realized patrolling without a gun meant “policing by consent.” His beat was the town’s public housing tenements, and Sibley said he quickly worked out that people responded better to persuasion than threats of force or arrest. De-escalation hadn’t yet hit the mainstream in law enforcement , but Sibley recalled spending most of his days doing just that.
Instead of taking a 'more coercive' approach, Sibley said, he tried to persuade people to act in their own self-interests. 'You have to deal with violent situations usually through … taking the time to listen to people, get to know them,” he said. Those early lessons have stuck with Sibley, 52, since moving to L.A. more than two decades ago and recently becoming executive director of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the civilian panel that oversees the police department and reviews shootings by officers. Sibley, who started his new role in September, said his prior experience gives him a unique perspective about when police should resort to drawing their weapons. In his new position as executive director, Sibley will act as a liaison between the LAPD and the commission, which acts much like a corporate board of directors by setting policies and providing direction for the department. He will also advise commissioners on one of their most important roles: their weekly deliberations behind closed doors about whether officer shootings and other serious uses of force were appropriate. Being involved in law enforcement in the U.S., he said, has said opened his eyes to the challenges of policing a country that — unlike England — is awash in guns. The presence of firearms can make even routine calls go south quickly, he said. Guns were a rarity in Hull, Sibley's childhood home. After his family briefly moved away when he was a teenager, he returned to join the police forc
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