NEW: The Mississippi Capitol Police, which shot four people in the first few months of an expanded crime-suppression mission in the city of Jackson, has issued new guidelines for when officers can use force against the public.
The changes are an attempt to bring the Capitol Police in closer alignment with national standards, Tindell said in an interview. “The original policy for Capitol Police was instituted in September of 2006, and, obviously, many things have evolved since then,” Tindell said.“It’s certainly better than what they had before,” said Robert Pusins, a retired major for the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, police department and now a consultant.
That, and a provision that allows officers to shoot at or from moving cars under certain circumstances, left the Capitol Police open to unnecessary risks — and fewer opportunities to hold accountable officers who use deadly force, Burbank said. Jim Bueermann, a retired chief of police in Redlands, California, and former head of the National Police Foundation, now known as the National Policing Institute, a nonprofit research organization, said the new policy didn’t go far enough in giving officers the option of avoiding a chase or other confrontation that could result in someone — the officer, a suspect or a member of the public — getting killed.
Tindell said that the new policy seeks to discourage firing during car chases and using chokeholds, but acknowledges that there might be “exceptional circumstances” — in which someone’s life is in danger — when they may be necessary. He also pointed out that the new policy requires an annual review of all use-of-force incidents to identify patterns.
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