PHOENIX – Several Arizona law enforcement agencies are among hundreds across the country testing a new de-escalation tool straight out of a comic book that’s intended to help them stop and detain people without causing pain.
De-escalation tactics came into prominence within the last 10 years when police use of force came under the “microscope,” said Kevin Robinson, lecturer at Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and former assistant Phoenix police chief.
“It’s not that it has not always been taught – it has – but there has never been as much of an emphasis as there is on it as there is now,” he said. Robinson worked with the Phoenix Police Department
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