Terms
Statistics on Police Use of Force
Police Use of Deadly Force
High-Profile Cases of Police Use of Deadly Force
Minimizing Police Use of Deadly Force
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The amount of effort required by police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject.
What is police use of force?
100
The vast majority of individuals killed by police are what gender.
What are males?
100
This is the landmark Supreme Court case that declared the "fleeing felon" rule unconstitutional.
What is Tennessee v. Garner?
100
The name of the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.
Who is Darren Wilson?
100
Examples of this include chemical sprays, batons, electric devices and choke holds.
What are Less-Than-Lethal Weapons (LTLW)?
200
The term used when a law enforcement officer kills a citizen in the line of duty.
What is a justifiable homicide?
200
The average number of individuals killed each year in the United States by law enforcement officers.
What is 350 - 400?
200
A police officer's perspective in shooting is echoed in this famous saying among police.
What is "Rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6."
200
This is the agency responsible for investigating whether there is sufficient evidence to charge the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, with the federal crime of depriving Michael Brown of his civil rights.
What is the FBI?
200
About 13% of police departments in the United States allow this as an option in their official use of force policies.
What is a choke hold?
300
The policies that guide police use of force.
What are use-of-force continuums?
300
Only about 1-2% of police citizen contacts involve this.
What is police use or threat of force?
300
The name of the law that, if passed, would require officers to wear body cameras.
What is the Michael Brown Law?
300
This is the agency that would have been responsible for prosecuting the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown for the federal crime of depriving Michael Brown of his civil rights.
What is the U.S. Department of Justice?
300
This is the agency that is currently leading a broad review of police tactics, including deadly force, encounters with the mentally ill and the application of emerging technologies.
What is the Justice Department or the U.S. Department of Justice?
400
Unncessary use of force and excessive use of force are the two categories of what.
What is improper use of force?
400
The number of times young, black males are more likely to be shot by police according to a recent report by ProPublica.
What is 21 times?
400
This is the name of the section of the FBI's UCR that includes data on justifiable homicides by law enforcement officers.
What is the Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR)?
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As we are discussing the U.S. Department of Justice is responsible for prosecuting federal civil rights charges against government officials. The U.S. Department of Justice is also responsible for civil investigations into entire police departments to see if they engaged in a pattern or practice of civil rights violations. This is the name of the police department that the U.S. Department of Justice concluded in 2014 has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force.
What is the Albuquerque Police Department?
400
This type of bill would encourage officers to shoot a suspect in a limb rather than areas that could lead to death.
What is a minimum force bill?
500
Name the year that the landmark Supreme Court case, Tennessee v. Garner was decided.
What is 1985?
500
This is where police are more likely to employee force, which complicates an easy interpretation of race as the decisive factor in explaining police forcefulness.
What are high-crime neighborhoods?
500
According to the article, "Deadly Force in Black and White," the adjective that best describes the data on justifiable homicides by police in the United States.
What is terribly incomplete?
500
The name of the officer who was responsible for the death of Eric Garner in NYC.
Who is Daniel Pantaleo?
500
This term refers to physical measures taken when verbal commands and officer presence are not effective in gaining compliance according to the use-of-force continnum example we reviewed in class. Examples of this type of officer response include strategic positioning, escort holds, joint manipulation or immobilization or touch pressure point stimulation.
What are contact controls?
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