{"id":160739,"date":"2018-04-20T02:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=160739"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T06:31:38","slug":"saskatoon-police-service-officers-used-force-more-often-last-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/20\/saskatoon-police-service-officers-used-force-more-often-last-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon Police Service officers used force more often last year: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160740\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/640px-Saskatoon_police_hq_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160740\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/640px-Saskatoon_police_hq_1.jpg\" alt=\"According to a 2017 report, police used force 264 times that year - a 31 percent increase from 2016.(Photo By Trekphiler - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/640px-Saskatoon_police_hq_1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/640px-Saskatoon_police_hq_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to a 2017 report, police used force 264 times that year &#8211; a 31 percent increase from 2016.(<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=58594510\">Photo By Trekphiler &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saskatoon police say violent drug users are behind a jump in the use of force by officers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2017 report, police used force 264 times that year &#8211; a 31 percent increase from 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Use of force covers everything from an officer firing a gun to using modified restraint straps.<\/p>\n<p>Every officer who applies force must submit a form for review by an independent committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatoon Police Service noted officers are encountering and arresting more violent people because of an increase in illicit drug use.<\/p>\n<p>No one died from police force in 2017, but 110 suspects were reported injured, including 27 who were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty police officers were injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatoon police say violent drug users are behind a jump in the use of force by officers. According to a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":160740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20727,18356,49957],"class_list":["post-160739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-drug-users","tag-saskatoon-police","tag-violent-drug-users","mauthors-ckom","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}