Required elements
In alignment with RCW 10.118, an advisory board created by the Office of the Attorney General established 69 use-of-force data points to be reported by law enforcement agencies.
Five categories
Incident information (21 data points)
Types of force (17 data points)
Subject information (17 data points)
Officer information (10 data points)
Administrative follow-up (4 data points)
Three types
Use of force:
- Pointed Firearm
- Discharged Firearm
- Used Electronic Control Weapon
- Used Chemical Irritant Spray
- Used Less Lethal Weapon
- Used Impact Weapon
- Physically Strike Person
- Used Vehicle to Strike a Person
- Deployed Canine
- Other
Demographic:
- Gender
- Age
- Ethnicity
- Race
- Tribal status
Situational:
- De-escalation
- Injury and treatment
- Whether armed and weapon type
- Threat
- Resistance