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Home My WebLink About06-04-20 Public Comment - S. Stromberg - Please Implement1 Mike Maas From:Web Admin Sent:Thursday, June 4, 2020 5:12 PM To:Chris Mehl Subject:Please Implement Message submitted from the <City Of Bozeman> website. Site Visitor Name: Sara Site Visitor Email: sara.elyse88@gmail.com Dear Mayor Mehl, My name is Sara and I am writing as a concerned citizen of Bozeman. I never want to see the kind of police brutality in our town that we have seen happening across the country. As the Mayor of Bozeman there are specific powers that you have to place checks on the police and ensure a safer community for all. Please implement the following: 1) Ban the use of chokeholds and strangleholds. Allowing officers to choke or strangle civilians, in many cases where less lethal force could be used instead, results in the unnecessary death or serious injury of civilians. 2) Require de-escalation. Require officers to de-escalate situations, where possible, by communicating with subjects, maintaining distance, and otherwise eliminating the need to use force. 3) Require warning before shooting. Require officers to give a verbal warning, when possible, before shooting at a civilian. 4)Exhaust all other means before shooting. Require officers to exhaust all other reasonable means before resorting to deadly force. 5) Duty to intervene. Require officers to intervene and stop excessive force used by other officers and report these incidents immediately to a supervisor. 6) Ban shooting at moving vehicles. Restrict officers from shooting at moving vehicles, which is regarded as a particularly dangerous and ineffective tactic. 7) Require use of Force Continuum. Develop a Force Continuum that limits the types of force and/or weapons that can be used to respond to specific types of resistance. 8) Require comprehensive reporting. Require officers to report each time they use force or threaten to use force against civilians. Again, you have the power to implement these measures that can help make Bozeman a safer community for all. Regards, 2 Sara E. Stromberg