In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 392, which modernized deadly force standards to provide that deadly force may only be used when necessary. [4] Effective January 1, 2020, AB 392 also required that officers use other techniques to address threats instead of using deadly force when safe to do so, and encouraged law enforcement to train on and use de escalation techniques like verbal persuasion and other crisis intervention methods. [5] Passage of the bill, which was spearheaded… [read post]