There was one case in 2018 in which an officer fired on a suspect. On Sept. 1, an officer shot 35-year-old Scott R. Stein, of Madison, after he threatened police with a knife. He suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was later convicted of two felonies in the case and sentenced to a year in prison.

The prevalence and kinds of force used are little changed from 2017, when force was used in 0.16% of all calls for service.

The report only concerned uses of force recorded by police and did not include instances of “pain compliance,” such as wrist locks or activating pressure points to encourage uncooperative suspects to comply. The addition of those instances would not significantly change department use-of-force statistics, according to assistant police chief Vic Wahl.

About 45% of the suspects who had force used against them were white, while about 48% were black and 5% were Hispanic. That generally corresponds with the racial makeup of those arrested by Madison police. According to the department’s most recent annual report, for 2017, 49% of those arrested were black and 47% were white. Blacks make up about 7% of the city’s population, whites about 75%.