Chapter 28 TCOLE Force
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Deadly Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Force that is intended or known by the actor,
or to cause, or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of
causing death or SBI
What is PEWS? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Personnel Early Warning System
Most people respond ________ to reasonable request from a peace officer
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Positively
,Frustrated people often _______ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Resist
Upset people are often ___________ of acting ___________ and will not
respond to appeals of reason. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Incapable, Reasonably
An officer must trust _____, which redirect behavior - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Tactics
Use words to state ___________, not express personal feelings -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Purpose
Anything perceived as hasty, irrational or unfair makes and officer seem
________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unethical
Determine if there are any __________ to effective communication and try
to ______ them if possible - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Obstacles, Eliminate
Commands or orders usually are met with _________ - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Resistance
Force (noun) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Strength, or energy brought to bear, cause of
motion or change, active power, moral or mental strength, capacity to
persuade or convince
Violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon person or thing
,Quality of conveying impressions intensely in writing or speech
Force (verb) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To do violence to
To compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means
To make or cause through natural or logical necessity
To achieve or win by strength in struggle or violence
Force Definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An aggressive act committed by any
person which does not amount to assault and is necessary to accomplish
an objective
Reasonable or Necessary Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the amount of lawful
physical coercion sufficient to achieve a legitimate law enforcement
objective and is objectively reasonable under the facts, circumstances and
alternatives confronting an officer at the time actions are taken
PC 9.02 Justification As a Defense - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔It is a defense to
prosecution that the conduct in question is justified under this chapter.
PC 9.03 Confinement as justifiable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Confinement is justified
when force is justified, if the actor takes reasonable measures to terminate
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, the confinement as soon as he knows he safely can unless the person
confined has been arrested for an offense
PC 9.04 Threats as Justifiable Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The threat of force is
justified when the use of force is justified by this chapter. For purposes of
this section, a threat to cause death or serious bodily injury by the
production of a weapon or otherwise, as long as the actor's purpose is
limited to creating an apprehension that he will use deadly force if
necessary, does not constitute the use of deadly force.
9.05 Reckless Injury of Innocent Third Person - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Even
though an actor is justified under this chapter in threatening or using force
or deadly force against another, if in doing so he also recklessly injures or
kills an innocent third person, the justification afforded by this chapter is
unavailable in a prosecution for the reckless injury or killing of the innocent
third person.
PC 9.06 Civil Remedies Unaffected - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The fact that conduct
is justified under this chapter does not abolish or impair any remedy for the
conduct that is available in a civil suit.
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Deadly Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Force that is intended or known by the actor,
or to cause, or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of
causing death or SBI
What is PEWS? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Personnel Early Warning System
Most people respond ________ to reasonable request from a peace officer
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Positively
,Frustrated people often _______ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Resist
Upset people are often ___________ of acting ___________ and will not
respond to appeals of reason. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Incapable, Reasonably
An officer must trust _____, which redirect behavior - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Tactics
Use words to state ___________, not express personal feelings -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Purpose
Anything perceived as hasty, irrational or unfair makes and officer seem
________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Unethical
Determine if there are any __________ to effective communication and try
to ______ them if possible - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Obstacles, Eliminate
Commands or orders usually are met with _________ - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Resistance
Force (noun) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Strength, or energy brought to bear, cause of
motion or change, active power, moral or mental strength, capacity to
persuade or convince
Violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon person or thing
,Quality of conveying impressions intensely in writing or speech
Force (verb) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To do violence to
To compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means
To make or cause through natural or logical necessity
To achieve or win by strength in struggle or violence
Force Definition - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An aggressive act committed by any
person which does not amount to assault and is necessary to accomplish
an objective
Reasonable or Necessary Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is the amount of lawful
physical coercion sufficient to achieve a legitimate law enforcement
objective and is objectively reasonable under the facts, circumstances and
alternatives confronting an officer at the time actions are taken
PC 9.02 Justification As a Defense - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔It is a defense to
prosecution that the conduct in question is justified under this chapter.
PC 9.03 Confinement as justifiable - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Confinement is justified
when force is justified, if the actor takes reasonable measures to terminate
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, the confinement as soon as he knows he safely can unless the person
confined has been arrested for an offense
PC 9.04 Threats as Justifiable Force - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The threat of force is
justified when the use of force is justified by this chapter. For purposes of
this section, a threat to cause death or serious bodily injury by the
production of a weapon or otherwise, as long as the actor's purpose is
limited to creating an apprehension that he will use deadly force if
necessary, does not constitute the use of deadly force.
9.05 Reckless Injury of Innocent Third Person - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Even
though an actor is justified under this chapter in threatening or using force
or deadly force against another, if in doing so he also recklessly injures or
kills an innocent third person, the justification afforded by this chapter is
unavailable in a prosecution for the reckless injury or killing of the innocent
third person.
PC 9.06 Civil Remedies Unaffected - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The fact that conduct
is justified under this chapter does not abolish or impair any remedy for the
conduct that is available in a civil suit.
