Salt Lake City police last year saw an increase in overall calls for service and reports of officers using force. The department is also on pace in 2022 to surpass last year’s 173,256 calls for service, says police chief Mike Brown.
Officers used nonlethal force 985 times last year, according to the department’s 2021 use-of-force report. That figure does not include interactions where an officer fired their weapon, the report noted, but does include actions like physical restraint, less-than-lethal rounds, pointing a firearm, use of pepper spray and use of a taser or use of a baton.
“We see this increase in calls handled, increase in arrests, increase in resisting and assault on police officers, so again the question is — did use of force change in proportion to that?” Deputy Chief Scott Mourtgos said Friday during a news conference.use-of-force report using his experience as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah with expertise in quantitative social sciences.
The 985 uses of force in 2021 amounted to 0.57% of all police calls that year. SLCPD Chief Mike Brown said community members should consider that as at, or near, “a global minimum.” Less than 1% of forceful interactions occurred with Middle Eastern people, according to the report. People of other races were the subject of 2% of uses of force, and in 4% of uses of force, officers did not note the race of people who were the subject in such interactions.
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