De-Escalation is Nothing New

There was quite a bit of media coverage earlier this month when the Los Angeles Police Department announced that it had revised its use-of-force policy. However, the reality is that very little has changed since the major revision to the policy in 2009.The 2017 policy revision consists of one new sentence (in the Preamble section, strangely not in the policy itself) and one modified sentence in the Policy section.The new sentence in the Preamble is:Officers shall attempt to control an incident b