Yakima police have used neck restraints 80 times since 2016, representing fewer than 4% of the total use-of-force incidents logged each year. That number likely will decline as the police department ...

Colorado legislators advanced a bill Tuesday to limit the use of physical restraints on inmates in acute mental health crises, sidestepping a disputed price tag and avoiding what one lawmaker ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is calling for an end to chokeholds and strangleholds by law enforcement. In a newly released position statement, the AAN urges police at federal, state, and ...

BOSTON - Some police departments in the United States continue to teach officers that neck restraints are a safe method for controlling agitated or aggressive people, but that's a dangerous myth, ...

Police departments around the world are moving to ban neck restraints in the aftermath of George Floyd's death and the widespread protests that followed. Police departments around the world are moving ...

At the end of a year marked by outrage after George Floyd died at the hands of a police officer, some medical experts say it's time to ban the use of neck restraints. Authors of a "Viewpoint" article ...

CHICAGO – A critical factor for jurors to consider at a former Minneapolis police officer's trial in George Floyd's death is whether he violated the department's policy on neck restraints when he ...

When Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee allegedly broke a high-ranking officer’s neck in October while demonstrating a hold, a tort claim filed against Lee mentioned a controversial use-of-force technique ...

CHICAGO – A critical factor for jurors to consider at a former Minneapolis police officer's trial in George Floyd's death is whether he violated the department's policy on neck restraints when he ...

CHICAGO (AP) - A critical factor for jurors to consider at a former Minneapolis police officer’s trial in George Floyd’s death is whether he violated the department’s policy on neck restraints when he ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (AP) — A critical factor for jurors ...