Intro To Law Vocab

is a subject’s verbal and/or physical refusal to comply with an officer’s lawful direction causing the officer to use physical techniques to establish control.

• Passive Resistance

• Active Resistance

• Aggressive Resistance

• Deadly Resistance

a subject’s attacking movements toward an officer that may cause injury but are not likely to cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others.

• Deadly Resistance

• Aggressive Resistance

• Active Resistance

• Passive Resistance

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.

• Passive Resistance

• Active Resistance

• Deadly Resistance

• Aggressive Resistance

Injury that involves a substantial risk of death, protracted and obvious disfigurement, or extended loss or impairment of the function of a body part or organ.

• Choke Hold

• De-Escalation

• Serious Bodily Injury

• Duty to Intervene

Taking action or communicating verbally or non‐verbally during a potential force encounter in an attempt to stabilize the situation and reduce the immediacy of the threat so that more time, options, and resources can be called upon to resolve the situation without the use of force or with a reduction in the force necessary. De‐escalation may include the use of such techniques as command presence, advisements, warnings, verbal persuasion, and tactical repositioning.

• duty to intervene

• choke hold

• de-escalation

• deadly force

A physical maneuver that restricts an individual’s ability to breathe for the purposes of incapacitation.

• Deadly Force

• Excessive Force

• Choke Hold

• Exigent Circumstances

An attempt to prevent or stop the use of excessive force by another officer when it is objectively reasonable to do so.

• Choke Hold

• Duty to Intervene

• Excessive Force

• Exigent Circumstances

The application of more force than is objectively reasonable in situations where some force is necessary.

• Excessive Force

• Deadly Force

• Choke Hold

• De-Escalation

Any use of force that creates a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury

• De-Escalation

• Deadly Force

• Serious Bodily Injury

• Duty to Intervene

Those circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that a particular action is necessary to prevent physical harm to an individual, the destruction of relevant evidence, the escape of a suspect, or some other consequence improperly frustrating legitimate law enforcement efforts.

• Exigent Circumstances

• Non-Exigent Circumstances

• Passive Resistance

• Deadly Force