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Council Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor
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Neil Gallucci, Chief 01ftfiM.--
Scott Chadwick, City r
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Memo ID# 2020169
Re: RTMENT'S COMMUNITY AND MEDIA RESPONSE TO CARLSBAD POLICE D
THE JUNE 11, 2020, INCIDENT
On June 11, 2020, at approximately 8:48 p.m., the Police Department received a call of an
unknown male lying face down on a sidewalk at Ponto Rd. and Carlsbad Blvd. Carlsbad fire and
police personnel responded to the call, which ultimately resulted in use of force by the police
officers when the subject became physically aggressive and advanced towards fire personnel.
The police officers relied upon the department's use of force policy:
300.3 USE OF FORCE
Officer� shall use only that amount of force that reasonably appears necessary given the
facts and totality of the circumstances known to or perceived by the officer at the time of
the event to accomplish a legitimate law enforcement purpose (Penal Code § 835a).
The reasonableness of force will be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on
the scene at the time of the incident. Any evaluation of reasonableness must allow for the
fact that officers are often forced to make split-second decisions about the amount of force
that reasonably appears necessary in a particular situation, with limited information and in
circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving.
Given that no policy can realistically predict every possible situation an officer might
encounter, officers are entrusted to use well-reasoned discretion in determining the
appropriate use of force in each incident.
It is also recognized that circumstances may arise in which officers reasonably believe that it
would be impractical or ineffective to use any of the tools, weapons, or methods provided by
the Department. Officers may find it more effective or reasonable to improvise their
response to rapidly unfolding conditions that they are confronting. In such circumstances,
the use of any improvised device or method must nonetheless be objectively reasonable and
utilized only to the degree that reasonably appears necessary to accomplish a legitimate law
enforcement purpose.
Police Department
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