The less lethal coercive power granted to police officers is not without its restrictions. Such limitations are delineated per the United States Supreme Court, via Graham v. Connor, applying the broad standard of objective reasonableness. A far more salient operational guide to assessing what is objectively reasonable rests within departmental use-of-force policy, which like other police policies can vary widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To date, comprehensive empirical inquiries regarding this jurisdictional variation is unknown. At best, extant research has noted that many agencies tend to instruct officers via a force continuum, although the nature (i.e., various designs, levels, and ordering of force tactics, and appropriate fo...
Discusses the differences between the force option model and the force continuum and the reason the ...
Law enforcement officers expect to be issued the most effective less lethal weapons to stop the esca...
What rules regulate when police can kill? As ongoing public controversy over high-profile police kil...
The less lethal coercive power granted to police officers is not without its restrictions. Such limi...
The relationship between administrative policy and deadly force has been well established in the pol...
The relationship between administrative policy and deadly force has been well established in the pol...
Police use of force research has concentrated heavily on officer behavior. Much of what is known fro...
Scholars have long theorized that constraining police officer discretion via organizational policy i...
Purpose - This paper aims to build on and contribute to earlier studies on use of force by the polic...
Purpose: This paper aims to build on and contribute to earlier studies on use of force by the police...
Despite the widespread implementation of new policies intended at reducing police officers’ use of f...
Despite the widespread implementation of new policies intended at reducing police officers’ use of f...
As the media continues to report on deadly interactions between police and the public, the need for ...
As part of their duties, police may be required to use force to contain or control a situation durin...
In response to public outrage over police use of force, Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) dedic...
Discusses the differences between the force option model and the force continuum and the reason the ...
Law enforcement officers expect to be issued the most effective less lethal weapons to stop the esca...
What rules regulate when police can kill? As ongoing public controversy over high-profile police kil...
The less lethal coercive power granted to police officers is not without its restrictions. Such limi...
The relationship between administrative policy and deadly force has been well established in the pol...
The relationship between administrative policy and deadly force has been well established in the pol...
Police use of force research has concentrated heavily on officer behavior. Much of what is known fro...
Scholars have long theorized that constraining police officer discretion via organizational policy i...
Purpose - This paper aims to build on and contribute to earlier studies on use of force by the polic...
Purpose: This paper aims to build on and contribute to earlier studies on use of force by the police...
Despite the widespread implementation of new policies intended at reducing police officers’ use of f...
Despite the widespread implementation of new policies intended at reducing police officers’ use of f...
As the media continues to report on deadly interactions between police and the public, the need for ...
As part of their duties, police may be required to use force to contain or control a situation durin...
In response to public outrage over police use of force, Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) dedic...
Discusses the differences between the force option model and the force continuum and the reason the ...
Law enforcement officers expect to be issued the most effective less lethal weapons to stop the esca...
What rules regulate when police can kill? As ongoing public controversy over high-profile police kil...