HL - Chapter 4 - DT - Unit 2 Lesson 1

Question 1

Chapter 776, F.S

Answer 1

Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers. an officer’s use of force is justified: to apprehend and arrest a subject, or to defend self or others.

Question 2

Section 776.05, F.S., addresses the issue of an officer using force to make an arrest:

Answer 2

(1) Which he or she reasonably believes to be necessary to defend self or another from bodily harm while making the arrest;
(2) When necessarily committed in retaking felons who have escaped;
(3) When necessarily committed in arresting felons fleeing from justice.
(a) The officer reasonably believes that the fleeing felon poses a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer or others; or
(b) The officer reasonably believes that the fleeing felon has committed a crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious physical harm to another person.

Question 3

Objective reasonableness

Answer 3

used to decide whether an officer’s use of force is an appropriate response to a subject’s resistance. How a reasonable officer on the scene would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hindsight.

Question 4

Use of force is…

Answer 4

a seizure under the Fourth Amendment

Question 5

A law enforcement officer is authorized to use…

Answer 5

only the force reasonably necessary to accomplish lawful objectives. This may be established by the officer’s reasonable belief, or reasonable suspicion, that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed

Question 6

Compliance

Answer 6

is the verbal or physical yielding to an officer’s authority without apparent threat of resistance or violence.

Question 7

Escalation

Answer 7

increasing the use of force or resistance

Question 8

Deescalation

Answer 8

decreasing the use of force or resistance

Question 9

Disengagement

Answer 9

discontinuing a command or physical use of force, for example, by breaking away from a subject

Question 10

Force Guidelines

Answer 10

provides a framework for making decisions involving the reasonable use of force by criminal justice officers

Question 11

Passive resistance

Answer 11

a subject’s verbal or physical refusal to comply with an officer

• Refuses to move at the officer’s direction.
• Refuses to leave the vehicle when arrested during a traffic stop.
• Refuses to take their hands out of pockets or from behind their back.

Question 12

Active resistance

Answer 12

a subject’s use of physically evasive movements directed toward the officer, such as bracing, tensing, pushing, or pulling to prevent the officer from establishing control over the subject.

Question 13

Aggressive resistance

Answer 13

hostile, attacking movements that may cause injury but are not likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others.

• Balls up their fist and approaches the officer.
• Pushes the officer back as he tries to take them into custody.
• Grabs any part of the officer’s body.

Question 14

Deadly force resistance

Answer 14

hostile, attacking movements with or without a weapon that create a reasonable perception that the subject intends to cause and has the capability of causing death or great bodily harm to the officer or others.

Question 15

Officer presence

Answer 15

your ability to convey to subjects and onlookers that you are able and ready to take control

Question 16

Command presence

Answer 16

your demeanor and the way you exhibit confidence through erect posture, alertness, and attention to surroundings

Question 17

Physical control

Answer 17

is achieving compliance or custody through the use of empty-hand or leverage- enhanced techniques

Question 18

Section 776.06, F.S

Answer 18

The term “deadly force” means force that is likely to cause death or great bodily harm

Question 19

Section 776.07, F.S

Answer 19

justified in the use of force, including deadly force, which he or she reasonably believes to be necessary to prevent the escape from a penal institution

Question 20

Ability

Answer 20

having the means to carry out their intent to cause death or great bodily harm

Question 21

Opportunity

Answer 21

subject is capable of acting on a plan to cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others

Question 22

Intent

Answer 22

a subject’s intention to voluntarily make the bodily movement that becomes the act to commit a criminal offense

Question 23

Totality of circumstances

Answer 23

considers the overall facts of a situation to determine if you had the authority to detain someone for committing a crime or to perform a legal search