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.
Framework of key policing reform proposals can be used as a starting point for bipartisan consensus
The jury’s decision to find Chauvin guilty may strengthen the calls for police reform that have been widespread since Floyd’s death
How does an officer draw and fire their pistol when it is clear they intended to draw and discharge their TASER?
OIS videos are shared broadly across the internet and can fuel the negative anti-police perception, even if the data isn’t there to back it up
The brutal October 5 beating left the officer with a concussion, bone chips to the shoulder and wrist and a neck injury
The product combines VIEVU’s LE4 body camera with Safariland’s 7TS series of holsters in a system designed to automatically capture video
The police union is asking officials to include better training, more hiring, and technology upgrades in the consent decree they are negotiating following the DOJ report
Cops have to make split-second decisions in situations that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving
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The DOJ report found the department disproportionately used force on people of color, and stopped and searched them more often than white people
Former Berrien County Sheriff Anthony Heath was sentenced to 30 months in prison for excessive force against two handcuffed suspects
The commission approved changes in the way the LAPD handles OIS, directing the department to release information to the public more quickly and expand training
The panel was deadlocked at nine jurors in favor of a not guilty verdict and three voting guilty on second-degree murder charges
A trooper searching for people trapped by flood waters in hard-hit Lumberton shot and killed an angry man who confronted officers while holding a gun
The draft policies would limit when cops can shoot fleeing suspects and restrict the number of times police can TASER suspects
After months of African-American aldermen publicly blasting the administration’s police reform efforts, many voted for the ordinance thanks to changes Rahm Emanuel made
The officers’ lawyer says Joseph Mann yelled and confronted the officers with a knife before he was fatally shot
Learning from an event and applying those lessons in training will improve your department’s future response
City Council members said Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to create a new agency that would investigate police shootings and police misconduct lacks necessary transparency and oversight
The judge said the protesters “failed to present any credible evidence that any of the actions taken by these individuals were taken with malice or were committed in bad faith”
The telephone death threats to the home of Officer Dominique Perez began soon after he and an Albuquerque police detective ended a hillside standoff by opening fire
A Cambridge University study of British and U.S. police shows a 93 percent decrease in the number of complaints made against cops when they are using body cameras
Alfred Olango ran afoul of the law several times in the years before death: selling cocaine, driving drunk, and illegally possessing a 9mm semi-automatic handgun
The son of a police officer, Brent Vinson’s future now hangs in the balance as authorities determine whether he was justified in killing Keith Lamont Scott
The FBI will have up and running within two years a database that tracks instances of police use of deadly force
One of the officers tried and failed to subdue the unidentified man with a TASER before the other officer fired several times
No officers were injured
Thirty-one-year-old Terrence Sterling was shot by an officer in the early morning of Sept. 11
A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had more than 2,500 rounds of live ammo when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood
Residents complained about what they called unaccountable police officers and civilian leaders who have failed to force change
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