APD Use of Force

Because every officer involved in a use of force incident is required to complete a separate report for each subject, details about the situation and the subject’s behavior may vary across reports written by different officers. To produce subject-level data, certain fields were therefore aggregated, with values consolidated to reflect the highest reported level across all corresponding officer reports. ____________________________________________________________ GENERAL ORDERS RELATING TO THIS DATA: Officers shall use only the force that is objectively reasonable, necessary, and proportional to the threat or resistance of a subject given the totality of the circumstances, to accomplish a lawful objective in accordance with their training, policy, and state law.

Whenever safe and reasonable, non-escalation and de-escalation techniques should be employed to gain voluntary compliance by a subject. ____________________________________________________________ AUSTIN POLICE DATA DISCLAIMER: 1. The data provided is for informational use only and may differ from official Austin Police crime data. 2. APD’s databases are continuously updated, and changes can be made due to a variety of investigative factors including but not limited to offense reclassification and dates. 3.