Chapter 4: Defensive Tactics Florida
Basic Recruit High Liability Test
Questions with Quality Complete
Solutions 2025-2026 Edition.
Defensive Tactics - Answer a system of controlled defensive and offensive body movements
used by criminal justice officers
What should a student do to maximize the benefit if DT training? - Answer Eat a nutritious
diet
Get adequate rest
Stay sufficiently hydrated
Cardiovascular Training - Answer Any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range
between 60% to 85% of the maximum rate.
Heart Disease - Answer The leading cause of premature death for both men and women.
Chapter 776 F.S. - Answer Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers.
Applies equally to Corrections and Correctional Probation Officers
Apprehend a Subject and make an Arrest - Answer One of the two general areas in which an
officer's use of force is justified
Defend Self or Others - Answer One of the two general areas in which an officer's use of
force is justified
Objective Reasonableness - Answer the process for evaluating the appropriateness of an
officer's response to a subject's resistance.
Appropriate Force - Answer the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an arrest.
, The Supreme Court has made clear
that use of force is a seizure under what Amendment? - Answer Fourth Amendment
Correctional officers must also consider that use of force may violate which Amendment with
regards to cruel and unusual punishment? - Answer Eighth Amendment
Much litigation against criminal justice officers is not about the amount of force used, but what?
- Answer Whether the use of
force was permitted at all.
Compliance - Answer the verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority without
apparent threat of resistance or violence.
Escalation - Answer increasing the use of force or resistance
De-escalation - Answer decreasing the use of force or resistance
Disengagement - Answer discontinuing a command or physical use of force
Force Guidelines - Answer provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force
by criminal justice officers.
Passive resistance - Answer 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.
Active resistance - Answer 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.
Aggressive resistance - Answer 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.
Basic Recruit High Liability Test
Questions with Quality Complete
Solutions 2025-2026 Edition.
Defensive Tactics - Answer a system of controlled defensive and offensive body movements
used by criminal justice officers
What should a student do to maximize the benefit if DT training? - Answer Eat a nutritious
diet
Get adequate rest
Stay sufficiently hydrated
Cardiovascular Training - Answer Any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range
between 60% to 85% of the maximum rate.
Heart Disease - Answer The leading cause of premature death for both men and women.
Chapter 776 F.S. - Answer Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers.
Applies equally to Corrections and Correctional Probation Officers
Apprehend a Subject and make an Arrest - Answer One of the two general areas in which an
officer's use of force is justified
Defend Self or Others - Answer One of the two general areas in which an officer's use of
force is justified
Objective Reasonableness - Answer the process for evaluating the appropriateness of an
officer's response to a subject's resistance.
Appropriate Force - Answer the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an arrest.
, The Supreme Court has made clear
that use of force is a seizure under what Amendment? - Answer Fourth Amendment
Correctional officers must also consider that use of force may violate which Amendment with
regards to cruel and unusual punishment? - Answer Eighth Amendment
Much litigation against criminal justice officers is not about the amount of force used, but what?
- Answer Whether the use of
force was permitted at all.
Compliance - Answer the verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority without
apparent threat of resistance or violence.
Escalation - Answer increasing the use of force or resistance
De-escalation - Answer decreasing the use of force or resistance
Disengagement - Answer discontinuing a command or physical use of force
Force Guidelines - Answer provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force
by criminal justice officers.
Passive resistance - Answer 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.
Active resistance - Answer 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.
Aggressive resistance - Answer 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.
