Exam 11: Police Use of Force

Body-worn cameras may affect citizens' behaviors when interacting with the police. This phenomenon has been referred to as a(n) ______ effect.

To help officers understand when the use of different types of force may be reasonable, most departments provide officers with a "continuum of force."

In deadly force situations, police officers are trained to stop the threat and may fire their weapon as many times as necessary to achieve this goal.

Define positional asphyxia and identify the four factors that contribute to positional asphyxia deaths.

What should be done in order to control a situation that could potentially lead to use of force?

Which type of force is most likely to result in injuries to subjects?

Assess the 21-foot rule and its limitations.

The ______ maintains a database of incidents involving police shooting and killing subjects based on publication and review of online media reports.

Police officers are allowed to use deadly force to apprehend any fleeing felon.

To prevent positional asphyxia, officers should never sit or lean on the abdomen of a subject.

"Drop the knife or I will shoot!" is an example of which form of verbalization?

Almost all suicide by cop incidents end with the subject being killed by police.

The majority of subjects killed by police in deadly force incidents are ______.

______ is usually a training problem, the result of ineptitude or insensitivity.

A majority of subjects killed by police officers in deadly force incidents are African American.

A small percentage of police officers account for a relatively large proportion of force incidents in any given police department.

If officer backup is far away or not available, the threat assessment may be higher than if backup were immediately available.

Identify at least two types of less-likely-to-be-lethal weapons available to law enforcement, and describe how they work.

When a person's body position prevents them from normal and adequate breathing, it is called ______.

Moving a noncompliant subject forcefully into a wall is an example of ______.