State and local agencies across New York train law enforcement officers on a condition that much of the medical establishment has disavowed as unscientific and a catalyst for police violence, newly ...

A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on "excited delirium," a document that critics say was used to justify excessive force by police. The American ...

But the officers’ attorneys seized on a largely discredited, four-decade-old diagnostic theory called “excited delirium,” which has been increasingly used over the past 15 years as a legal defense to ...

California, Colorado, and Minnesota have restricted citing excited delirium in official sources. New York authorities, however, have continued to train officers on the discredited syndrome. In 2023, ...