More than 100 Denver cops used force five or more times last year.
fell in all seven of its police districts, while the percentage of arrests involving use-of-force incidents rose in six out of the seven.
Over that same period, the number of DPD officers with multiple use-of-force incidents on their records also skyrocketed. In 2018, 39 officers registered five or more use-of-force incidents; the total in 2021 was 135.. However, the department insists that the data shouldn't be interpreted as evidence that Denver officers are relying on force more frequently than in past years.
In other districts, use-of-force incidents rose in raw numbers from 2018 to 2021, despite a drop in arrests. During 2018, District 3 counted 63 use-of-force arrests among 4,234 arrests for a rate of 14.9 percent; in 2021, that same district documented 77 use-of-force arrests among 2,317 arrests, for a rate of 33.2 percent, up from 30.3 percent in 2020.
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