Use of Force
The Use of Force topic provides news, information and training on one of the most commonly discussed areas in police training programs. Learn how to educate your community about use of force, the risks unarmed individuals pose and more.
Cops often complain that firearms training is boring, static and geared strictly toward the passing of a state-mandated qualification course – but it doesn’t have to be that way
It is imperative that defensive tactics instructors discuss the mindset and emotional control officers need to survive this scenario
When the Corvallis Police Department moved away from everyday use of shotguns in favor of patrol rifles, the shotguns were repurposed for use as less-lethal weapons
Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement and a thousand miles of perception
The ensuing standoff with the wounded suspect led to a long Labor Day closure of the freeway
Some 200 people held signs and chanted Saturday outside a Wal-Mart where a young man with an air rifle was fatally shot by police
“The Department has an opportunity to be a leader for the state by creating strong, privacy-protecting policies for body cameras”
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday the department is “actively looking” at equipping officers with body-worn cameras
St. Paul police responded Thursday to criticism over officers’ interaction with a man, including police use of a TASER, saying a video doesn’t tell the whole story
Officers assert that high-level city, police and union officials privately agree that the court-ordered use-of-force changes put them and public in danger
Officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man who had just killed another man early Wednesday
Federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after a fatal police shooting
Left out of all of the so-called analysis in the mainstream media in the aftermath of the Ferguson OIS is any real examination of the science of human performance during rapidly-unfolding, high-stress events
St. Louis County so far has spent about $1 million in police overtime responding to Ferguson
Man stabbed an officer in the back with a 14-inch long butcher knife before another cop shot the suspect
Video shows the officer pulling a gun on the occupants of a vehicle during a traffic stop
Fugitive armed with two handguns and wearing body armor fired several rounds at officers, who fired back
Officer remains hospitalized in a medically induced coma and is responding well to treatment
Officers thought the robbery suspect’s Airsoft handgun was real
Police have said the shooting was justified because the suspect was waving an air rifle at customers and refused their commands to drop it
In the aftermath of the police shooting in Ferguson, some departments are renewing efforts to reach out to black communities to build trust
Protests over a fatal police shooting migrated to the city Tuesday as demonstrators pressed for broad reforms to law enforcement
A well-written force response report may take a little longer to write on the front end, but will certainly save you much more time (and trouble) later
How do we protect the many officers who have been falsely accused of excessive force and then libeled and slandered in the media?
Police chief is praising his agency’s investment in body cameras after a video captured an incident that may have been misconstrued as excessive force
Departments cannot use a shield of immunity to protect them from millions of dollars in civil rights claims arising from a 2008 tactical-team raid that killed a man and injured a homeowner
Deputies were called to the store Saturday in reference to a man acting strangely and disturbing shoppers
Eleven officers and sergeants remain under internal investigation in the 2013 case
The examination comes in the aftermath of the police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri
Police reported no arrests after the afternoon rally and march that drew well over 2,500 people to the streets where Eric Garner was taken to the ground on July 17 by an NYPD officer
His proposed budget calls for purchasing 500 of the mini cameras, enough to outfit about half of Miami-Dade’s patrol force
