How Decades Of Bans On Police Chokeholds Have Fallen Short

Review of bans on neck restraints in some of the nation's largest police departments found them largely ineffective and subject to lax enforcement. And when chokeholds specifically were banned, a variation on the neck restraint was often permitted instead.
Neck restraints fall into two broad categories: A chokehold, which restricts the airway when pressure is applied to the front of the neck; and a stranglehold, which restricts blood flow to the brain when pressure is applied to the sides of the neck.