carotid restraint

California State University police chiefs Friday banned the use of the carotid restraint and pledged to implement policing recommendations offered by a 2015 federal task force on the CSU’s 23 campuses. “As police chiefs of the California State University’s 23 campus police departments, we have been galvanized by the many voices across our state and nation demanding accountability, equity and…

After years of calls for law enforcement officers to end a neck hold known as the carotid restraint, San Diego Police Department Chief David Nisliet ordered the practice to come to an immediate end on Monday.

The Los Angeles Police Department is putting an immediate moratorium on the training and use of the Carotid Restraint Control Hold, according to a statement released by the department Monday. San Diego police recently banned the hold, and Gov. Gavin Newson Friday ordered state police to stop teaching officers the submission technique that uses a neck hold that blocks the…

The controversial neck hold is now banned by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, and the police departments in Chula vista, Coronado, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside and San Diego