BCSO has recently started utilizing the curriculum of Ethical Policing is Courageous, or EPIC.
– The number of reported incidents of Bexar County detention officers using force on inmates has dropped this year, after a noticeable spike in 2021, records analyzed byThrough mid-November, jailers used force on inmates an average of 2.746 times per day. Last year, the use of force average was 3.332 incidents per day.
Salazar said better utilization of body-worn cameras and additional training have helped contribute to getting the number of use-of-force incidents down to pre-pandemic levels. In May 2019, Deputy Brandon Doege, at the time a member of the agency’s Special Emergency Response Team , was placed under investigation after a fellow deputy’s body-worn camera captured footage of Doege using a leg sweep, hip toss maneuver to take a handcuffed and leg-shackled inmate to the ground.
In the weeks and months following the incident, BCSO investigators were able to gather enough evidence to terminate Doege, and eventually get him indicted the following summer on“Would I have punched him? Probably not. He reached over and turned off my camera,” said Deputy Noah Volpi, when questioned by an investigator during a taped interview.
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