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.
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“We expected them to subdue him and take him to the hospital,” the brother said after the shooting Tuesday
Says he was just trying to help at the scene of a car wreck near his house
Also shot a security guard in the back of the neck at a gas station and then robbed the victim while he lay bleeding
He refused orders to drop the look-alike weapon
Tuesday’s date was circled on a calendar found in the trailer where 56-year-old Clay Duke lived
The man pointed it at one of the officers and two officers fired their weapons, a handgun and a shotgun, eight times
As she she tried to escape, the 22-year-old nursing student had dragged one officer into the street with her car
Pleaded guilty for beating up the boy inside a stairwell at the Woonsocket Police Department in 2009
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 stipulates that cops must make “reasonable accommodations” to the known physical limitations of a suspect
Officers should be familiar with easily observed warning signs that often precede an attack
The plainclothes officer is shown on a convenience store video kicking a 17-year-old boy in the groin
The suspect fatally shot two men and injured one woman before an officer hit him with a TASER as he broke into the PD
The officer who fired the lethal shot said he thought the man was reaching for a weapon
The second suit alleges use of excessive force by Taos police officers
While being evaluated inside an ambulance the man became combative and assaulted a female EMS worker
After a suspect tried to wrest one cop’s duty weapon from its holster, his backup shot the suspect, ending the confrontation — but the fight was still on, in the courts, in the legislature, on the Internet
Defense counsel Mike Rains said after the sentencing that he blames the Alameda County DA for prosecuting an obvious accident as a murder case
The use of body weapons is an important part of any defensive tactics training, but there are some downsides to consider
The county’s deputies were working in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and allegedly shot the man in his eye after a bout of road rage
The 9-year veteran was shot three times in the chest
Abuelazam was unshackled and outside his cell Wednesday night when he attacked the two deputies
More than a third of the 163 cops killed on duty since last October died by gunfire
The family says it was nice to receive damages, “but it would have been good to send a message to the city”
The police chief said she appeared to be highly disturbed
“My civil rights were violated as a person, not as an elected official,” the state representative said
The 18-year-old man who had a history of mental-health problems dies in an attempt by police to subdue him
The woman says police used an ‘extreme level of force’ when they lobbed the grenade into her house, resulting in burns on 11 percent of her body
