Dingleberrries
When can you stop a vehicle?
At minimum reasonable suspicion
Probable cause
When can you lawfully detain someone?
1. Flight risk
2. Imminent danger to self or others
3. Subject has committed a crime
What level of force is the baton?
Intermediate Weapon
what is consensual, investigatory, arrest
What are the leading causes of police line of duty deaths?
Officers must obtain it knowingly and voluntarily but do not need to warn of the right to refuse
What is consent
What are the different use of force incident categories?
Hands on/ less lethal
Deadly force
Deadly force on a fleeing felon
Duty to intervene
Failure to intervene when a fellow officer is using excessive force
Terry stop
Reasonable suspicion to believe the suspect is armed and dangerous.
What are the 4 core emotional intelligence skills?
1. Self-awareness
2. Self-management
3. Social awareness
4. Relationship management
When can police search without a search warrant?
Plain view, Search incident to arrest, exigent circumstances, automobile exception, hot pursuit
How fast can an assailant draw and fire?
How fast can an officer draw an fire with accuracy?
0.37 seconds
1.9 to 2.4 seconds
What are the 3 types of people and what are the percentages of each?
1. Agreeable: 80%
2. Challenging: 10%
3. Manipulator: 10%
Tennesse V Garner
Deadly force is authorized when the officer can articulate that the suspect poses and immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm to officers or others.
the use of deadly force was immediately necessary to stop that threat
Will be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer
Define consent
- Must be provided knowingly and voluntarily
- Consent may be withdrawn
- Consent does not need to be implicit (body language, actions and other implied "yes")
What is the exclusionary rule?
all relevant evidence obtained through unconstitutional police activity is inadmissible as evidence in court
What percent of victim officers were within 0 to 5 ft of the assailant?
What percent were within 6 to 10 ft?
51.9%
19.2%
What are the different levels of control?
Officer presence, verbal direction, soft empty hand, hard empty hand, intermediate force, deadly force
When can an Officer seize an item?
1. probable cause to believe the item is contraband
2. probable cause, at the moment of seizure the item was stolen
3. probable cause, at the moment of seizure the item is evidence of a crime
What are lawful ways to search a vehicle?
1. consent
2. recognized exception to a search warrant
3. execution of a search warrant based on probable cause
What is not a search under the 4th amendment?
1. intrusion into an open field
2. Plain view
3. K-9
4. observation from public places
5. looking through a window
What are the nine classes of felonies?
Class A, B, C
Felony 1-6
Misdemeanor 1 & 2
Graham V Connor
Established objective reasonableness for the use of force:
- the totality of the circumstances
- from the prospective of a reasonable officer
- who was on the scene, at the moment force was applied
- without 20/20 hindsight, in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and readily evolving
What are the 4 firearm safety rules?
1. All guns are always loaded
2. Never allow the muzzle to cover anything you are not willing to destroy
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you intend to shoot
4. always be sure of your target
What are the 6 ways to develop probable cause?
- Plain View
- Observation of the officer or another officer
- items found during a lawful frisk or search
- information from dispatch
- an occupant of the vehicle tells you
- during a lawful inventory, consent search or Belton/Grant search of the vehicle.