In response to a report in the SF Standard that arbitrarily conflates use-of-force cases with a subject’s housing status, the SFPD is setting the record straight.
SFPD officers received 174,176 homeless-related calls from dispatchers between 2017 and 2022. Only 43 of those cases resulted in a use of force after the individual either assaulted or resisted police or committed another crime.
Nearly all 43 of those use-of-force cases involved officers using a physical control hold. In one case an officer used OC spray.
The statistics are unequivocal: For homeless-related calls for service, SFPD officers used force less than 3 times out of every 10,000 calls – specifically .024% of the time.
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