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    Police Use of Force (December 21, 2016, to April 11, 2022)

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

    SUMMARY Use of Force data (UOF) collection and reporting requirements were updated significantly in 2016. This dataset reflects Use of Force incidents occurring between December 21, 2016, through April 11, 2022. Each record corresponds to an incident where an officer used force. For any incident, there may be more than one officer involved and/or more than one type of force used.

    Use of Force data in this release was captured under the standards set forth in DGO 5.01, Use of Force, passed on December 21st, 2016.

    See Dataset Explainer for more information.

    UPDATE PROCESS This dataset is historical only and will not be updated.

    HOW TO USE THIS DATASET This dataset can be used to provide counts of incidents involving use of force as well as counts of force, by type, date, subject demographics, and location. Use of Force standards have changed in subsequent revisions of DGO 5.01 and care should be taken when comparing Use of Force data across differing standards.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SFO JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Publisher data.sfgov.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/hrt5-562g
    Data First Published 2024-05-14
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-24
    Category Public Safety
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.sfgov.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 92967777-1b24-4867-9b97-9cef38106526
    Harvest Source Id 8507fa43-f429-4095-b732-2177330ce485
    Harvest Source Title SFO JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/hrt5-562g
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash caf46ad09b19384cdf715ba694b2e929208ca95939a0e6927d162c1f63793583
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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