A physical attack.
What is assault?
Mental health condition triggered by witnessing or experiencing an extremely upsetting event. Symptoms may include flashbacks, sleep problems, and anxiety.
What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
A police officer’s verbalization to induce compliance from a subject.
What is control talk?
Weapons used to induce compliance; they include batons, flashlights, chemical sprays, and Tasers.
What are impact weapons?
The minimum amount of force necessary to overcome the resistance offered by the subject.
What is reasonable force?
Protective vest worn by officers to help prevent injury or death, particularly from gunshot wounds.
What is body armor?
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature, and/or offensive remarks about a person’s gender.
What is sexual harassment?
Forms of force used by the police that have a high likelihood of resulting in the death of a subject.
What is deadly force?
Weapons less likely to cause death to a subject. They commonly include OC spray and Tasers.
What are less lethal weapons?
This can involve (a) passive resistance, (b) verbal resistance, (c) physically defensive resistance, (d) physically active or aggressive resistance, and/or (e) deadly resistance.
What is subject resistance?
A prolonged response to chronic and interpersonal stressors on the job.
What is burnout?
Force that involves physical restraining maneuvers, such as vertical stuns, takedowns, and punches or kicks.
What is bodily force?
Taser mode in which the weapon itself is placed in contact with the subject’s body, delivering the electrical current directly.
What is drive-stun mode?
Spray containing an inflammatory agent that causes an inflammation of the respiratory tract and a burning and swelling of the eyes; also known as pepper spray.
What is oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray?
Intentional subject behavior that seeks to coerce police officers to respond with lethal force.
What is suicide by cop (SBC)?
A natural biological rhythm that regulates sleeping patterns, alertness, and brain wave activity, among other things.
What is circadian rhythm?
Use of force that is consciously and purposefully cruel and harsh.
What is brutality?
Data management system designed to record and monitor certain behaviors of officers with the objective of identifying potentially problematic patterns of behaviors while they can still be corrected.
What is early intervention system (EIS)?
A dangerous condition that occurs when a person’s body position prevents normal and adequate breathing.
What is positional asphyxia?
An electronic stun device that resembles a gun. It delivers an electrical current to incapacitate a subject.
What is TASER?
A reaction that triggers a bodily response to a stimulus.
What is physiological response?
The principle that police can and should only use as much force as necessary to overcome the resistance offered by the subject.
What is the continuum of force?
A potentially deadly medical condition involving psychotic behavior, an elevated temperature, and an extreme fight-or-flight response by the nervous system.
What is excited delirium?
Taser mode in which two probes are fired from the Taser into the body of a subject; an electrical current then flows from the Taser through the wires attached to the probes and into the subject.
An officer’s assessment of the degree of danger posed by a subject; factors involved in the assessment can be physical or situational.
What is threat assessment?