Every day police use tactics considered less lethal to control people in a variety of situations without using guns.

Less lethal force can be a range of things, like a taser. It can be physical force.

The goal is to subdue someone.

For three years, a team of reporters led by the Associated Press have investigated these incidents across the country.

They've documented more than a thousand deaths over roughly a decade.

These are still rare, but it happens more often than the public knows about.

Our new documentary, documenting police use of force,

examines what they found.

We're in the real world.

We're real world practitioners.

So we're dealing with a real world problem.

He died from the way he was restrained in the ambulance.

I spoke with the film's director, Sir Jean-Yau-Roseoseblatt and Justin Pritchard, a reporter and editor with the AP.

I'm Rainey Aronson Roth, editor-in-chief and executive producer of Frontline, and this is the Frontline Dispatch.

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