BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A newly revised policy limits when Brevard County sheriff’s deputies are authorized to use neck restraints to gain control of a subject, News 6 has learned. Under the new rules, ...

LITTLE ROCK — Mayor Frank Scott Jr. on Wednesday signed an executive order banning the use of neck restraints by the city’s police officers. While chokeholds have already been banned in the city, ...

Washington state law enforcement officers cannot use neck restraints after a new law became effective July 25, and they are worried about the ramifications. The state Legislature passed House Bill ...

Protesters demanding change in Kansas City say they want tighter policies in place for police use-of-force rules. It's the third demand on a list authored by protesters and signed by Kansas City Mayor ...

Neck restraints – or chokeholds, as they are often referred to by the public – have recently been banned in many police departments across the Seattle area. Notably, they have been banned in suburbs ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In the last five years, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department have rendered 44 people unconscious while restraining a person's neck, according to an NBC News analysis of the ...

Some police departments in the United States continue to teach officers that neck restraints are a safe method for controlling agitated or aggressive people, but that's a dangerous myth, according to ...

LAS VEGAS – Police in Las Vegas have changed use-of-force policies to stop routine use of neck restraints that render people unconscious after the death of a man and findings that a department-taught ...