DEFENSIVE TACTICS (WHOLE TEST) QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS

DEFENSIVE TACTICS (WHOLE TEST) QUESTIONS COMPLETE WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS Q.is a system of controlled defensive and offensive body movements used by criminal justice officers to respond to a subject's aggression or resistance. - ANSWERS-definition od Defensive Tactics Q.Defensive Tactics techniques are based of a combination of what? - ANSWERS-Martial Arts, wrestling and boxing. Q.Chapter 776, F.S. - ANSWERS-governs all use of force by criminal justice officers. The statues identifies Two general areas in which an officers use of force is justified: to apprehend a subject and to make arrest or to defend self or others. Q.section 776.05 - ANSWERS-addresses the issue of an officer using force to make an arrest. Q.Chapter 944 - ANSWERS-specifically addresses the use of force by state correctional and correctional probation officers. Q.Chapter 945 establishes that the Department of corrections has jurisdiction over What? - ANSWERS-the supervisory and protective care, custody, and control of inmates and offenders. Q.Chapter 944.35, F.S. provides: - ANSWERS-An employee of the department is authorized to apply physical force upon an inmate only when and to the extent that it is reasonably and appears necessary. Q.define objective reasonableness - ANSWERS-to describe the process for evaluating the appropriateness of an officer's response to a subject's resistance. Q.The U.S Supreme Court said in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S 386 (1989) - ANSWERS-that the reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the scene would respond, rather than 20/20 perspective of hindsight. Courts recognized that the criminal justice officers must make split- second judgments about the amount of force needed in a particular situation under circumstances that are tense, un certain, and rapidly evolving. Q.the officer's reasons for using force must be - ANSWERS-consistent with constitutional and statutory law, as well as agency police and trainings guidelines. Q.When does the authority to use force come in? - ANSWERS-A law enforcement officer's authority to use force is established by the officer's reasonable belief that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed. Q.Is a verbal and/ or physical yielding to an officer's authority without apparent threat of resistance or violence. - ANSWERS-Definition of Compliance Q.Is increasing the use of force or resistance - ANSWERS-Definition of escalation Q.decreasing the use of force or resistance. - ANSWERS-definition od de- escalation Q.define disengagement - ANSWERS-discontinuing a command or physical use of force, for example, by breaking away from a subject. Q.Force Guidelines - ANSWERS-provides a framework for making decisions involving the reasonable use of force by criminal justice officers. Q.is a subject's verbal and/or physical refusal to comply with an officer's lawful directions causing the officer to use physical techniques to establish control. - ANSWERS-What is passive resistance? Q.What are some examples of passive resistance? - ANSWERS-1. the subject refuses to move at the officer's directions 2. the subject peacefully protest at a political event in a public location 3. the subject refuses to take his hands out of his pockets or from behind his neck.