Section 7.3

Question 1

If police have PC to arrest you can they use any force reasonable to affect that arrest?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

If a reasonable police officer would believe they have the probable cause to arrest you and you resist you do not want to get arrested they can use whatever force reasonable to do that. true or false

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Example, if i am being arrested and i just kind of jerk my hand away but there is no other move to resist it would or would not be reasonable for an officer to pull out his pepper spray?

Answer 3

would not be reasonable

Question 4

Example, if i punch a police officer in the face they can punch me in the face because that is reasonable force. True or false?

Answer 4

true

Question 5

During arrest officers can use force that is what?

Answer 5

Resonable

Question 6

1.4% of all police contacts. The use of force or even the threatened use of force is ______.

Answer 6

rare

Question 7

If there is excessive force used, police can face criminal or civil penalties for that. True or False

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Excessive force: You want to make sure if you are a police officer or an investigator that you only use force that is ________.

Answer 8

Reasonable

Question 9

Force is reasonable or not based on what officer knew at the time, not with hindsight. What case?

Answer 9

Graham v Conner (1989)

Question 10

Controlling supreme court case about police use of force. It says that force is reasonable or not with hindsight but only with what the officer believed at the time. What case?

Answer 10

Graham v Conner (1989)

Question 11

example, if what the officer reasonably believed at the time later turned out to be false that does not change whether the force used at the time was reasonable or not. All that matters is what a reasonable officer would have believed at the time the action happened. What case?

Answer 11

Graham v Conner (1989)

Question 12

Two types of force:
1.
2.

Answer 12

1. Deadly Force

2. Less than lethal force

Question 13

Most commonly means handcuffs but there are a lot of officers that use plastic flex cuffs.

Answer 13

Restraints

Question 14

Pepper spray and tear gas

Answer 14

Aerosols

Question 15

Baton, bean bag rounds from a shot gun

Answer 15

Impact weapons

Question 16

ECW

Answer 16

electronic control weapons device

Question 17

Taser

Answer 17

ECW

Question 18

Are there long term effects from a taser ?

Answer 18

no

Question 19

There are other ways to use force but the more common are restraints, aerosols, impact weapons, ECWs. True or Flase

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Most serious kind of force

Answer 20

Deadly force

Question 21

The deadliest way to use deadly force is what?

Answer 21

Firearms

Question 22

Most commonly pistols which is what police carry but it could be shotguns or rifles. This has to do with deadly force. True or False

Answer 22

True

Question 23

There must be imminent threat of death or great bodily injury to either the officer or some third person. This is the standard…

Answer 23

The standard for using deadly force

Question 24

Prior to this case there were a lot of states that said if police have PC to believe that this person is a felon, and that person is feeling the police. Hypothetical threat that this fleeing felon could go on later and hurt somebody that was enough to justify deadly force. The police said no. What case?

Answer 24

Tennessee V Garner (1985)

Question 25

Fleeing felons. What case ?

Answer 25

Tennessee v Garner (1985)

Question 26

hypothetical threat is not enough and you need an imminent threat. Example, if someone is charging at an officer with a knife that is an imminent threat. True or False

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Example, if someone says i am going to come back and punch you later that is a threat but it is not imminent. True or False

Answer 27

True

Question 28

It must be _____ and happening right now with a danger of death or great bodily injury to the officer or some innocent third party and then police ae allowed to use deadly force.

Answer 28

Imminent

Question 29

It an include cars or anything that is reasonably expected to cause death. As well as guns.

Answer 29

Use of force. Deadly

Question 30

4.1% of Americans are mentally ill. True or false

Answer 30

True

Question 31

A lot of times police officers have hired either specially trained officers and create a crisis intervention team that is trained to deal with it and to keep it from escalating. True of false

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Trained to find people with mental illness and approach them and create a rapport and work with their situation.

Answer 32

Crisis intervention teams

Question 33

Most cost effective way to hire non-officers to go on mentally ill calls a lot of police departments know they do not need to send an actual cop so they send?

Answer 33

Social workers

Question 34

The worst situation a cop can face

Answer 34

Suicide by cop

Question 35

The people want to die, and they want to commit suicide but they do not want to do it themselves so they induce a police officer to kill them, as a form of suicide.

Answer 35

Suicide by cop

Question 36

A lot more common than people think and it is mentally harmful to the officer. Try to deescalate the problem and the good news is there is a national conversation about it now.

Answer 36

Suicide by cop