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This is a system of controlled defenses and offenses body movements used by criminal justice officers to respond to the subject resistance.
Definition
Defensive tactics
Term
How long does stretching or any calisthenics exercise usually last for?
Definition
5-7 minutes
Term
Any training that elevates the heart rate to a range between 60 and 85% of the max rate is
called:
Definition
Cardiovascular training
Term
This chapter of Florida statutes governs all use of force by criminal justice officers:
Definition
776
Term
Which Florida statute Chapter and subsection addresses using force to make an arrest?
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776.05
Term
What chapter of Florida statute specifically addresses the use of force by state correctional
officers?
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944
Term
This term is used by the courts to evaluate the appropriateness of an officer's response to his
subjects resistance:
Definition
Objective Reasonableness
Term
What Court cases cited the reasonableness of use of force must be judged from the perspective
of a reasonable officer?
Definition
Graham vs. Connor
Term
Verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority is called:
Definition
Compliance
Term
This is increasingly use of force or resistance:
Definition
Escalation
Term
This is the decreasing of the use of force or resistance:
Definition
De-escalation
Term
This is discontinuing a command or physical use of force:
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Disengagement
Term
A subject that refuses to move at the officer's direction is what level of resistance?
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Passive resistance
Term
This is a subjects refusal to comply with an officer's lawful direction:
Definition
Passive resistance
Term
This is a subjects use of physically evasive movements directed toward the officer:
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Active resistance
Term
If a subject physically anchors himself to a person or object to prevent his removal is what level:
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Active resistance
Term
If a subject grabbed any part of the officer's body what level of resistance are they displaying?
Definition
Aggressive resistance
Term
This is a subjects attacking movements toward an officer that may cause injury but not likely
death:
Definition
Aggressive resistance
Term
This is a subjects hostile attacking movements that create a reasonable perception by the officer that the subject intends to cause and has the capability of causing death or great bodily harm:
Definition
Deadly force resistance
Term
If a subject attempts to run an officer down in a vehicle it is what level of resistance?
Definition
Deadly force resistance
Term
This is in achieving compliance or custody through the use of empty-handed or leverage
enhanced techniques:
Definition
Physical control
Term
This is a weapon that is not fundamentally designed to cause death or great bodily harm:
Definition
Nonlethal weapon
Term
This is force that is unlikely to cause great bodily harm:
Definition
Deadly force
Term
What three criteria for making deadly force decisions to officers use?
Definition
Ability, opportunity, intent
Term
This refers to the subject having the means to carry out his or her intent to cause death
Definition
Ability
Term
This means the subject is capable of carrying out an intention to cause death:
Definition
Opportunity
Term
This is a reasonably perceived imminent threat to officer or other person:
Definition
Intent
Term
This is a term used to refer to all facts and circumstances known to the officer:
Definition
Totality of circumstances
Term
The severity of the crime, access to weapons, combat skills, and the duration of the
confrontation are all considered:
Definition
Totality of circumstances
Term
All circumstances are fluid and:
Definition
Dynamic
Term
This is sometimes called fear-induced stress and is caused by hormonal changes brought on by
danger:
Definition
Survival stress
Term
Hormones can cause an elevated heart rate in effect and officers:
Definition
Cognitive decision making skill
Term
Reacting verbally or physically as if a subject may resist is called:
Definition
Posturing
Term
When hearing is diminished, it is known as:
Definition
Auditory exclusion
Term
This refers to the muscles required to make small, precise movements:
Definition
Fine motor skills
Term
These combined fine and gross motor skills using hand eye coordination timed to a single event:
Definition
Complex motor skills
Term
These are large major movements of muscles in the body:
Definition
Gross motor skills
Term
This type of vision is dominant:
Definition
Binocular vision
Term
What condition would recognizing a threats existence be?
Definition
Condition orange
Term
Well I'm a job at officer is in a relaxed sense of awareness and notices what is going on around
him is his condition:
Definition
Condition yellow
Term
When a specific threat has been identified and appropriate action has been taken it is this
condition:
Definition
Condition red
Term
When it's difficult to transfer information into long-term memory you may be experiencing:
Definition
Critical incident amnesia
Term
Staying physically fit, using deep breath techniques, and maintaining proficiency are all ways to
control the effects of:
Definition
Control the effects of survival stress
Term
This is using great force against a weaker resistance:
Definition
Leverage
Term
This is a subjects response to a combination of pain and verbal commands:
Definition
Pain compliance
Term
This is getting leverage on a joint by locking it up so that no movement of the joint is possible:
Definition
Mechanical compliance
Term
Bending or twisting a joint in a direction that can cause pain:
Definition
Joint manipulation
Term
Gaining control over a subject using incapacitation techniques that causes temporary
impairment:
Definition
Motor dysfunction
Term
Utilizing penetration so that the striking object stays on target for an instant is called:
Definition
Fluid shock principle
Term
This is a state of extreme mental or physiological excitement categorized by exceptional education and hyperactivity, overheating, excessive tears, hostility, Superman strength, etc.:
Definition
Excited delirium
Term
Traffic conditions, weather, and other factors that should be considered during threat
assessment are also called:
Definition
Environmental factors
Term
This describes an officer's position in relation to the subject:
Definition
Relative positioning
Term
This is used to engage or disengage from a subject in close proximity:
Definition
Slide step
Term
Which foot do you step off with during a slide step:
Definition
Lead foot
Term
This is generally 6 to 9 feet if you have control of a suspect hands, 25 feet when you cannot see
the suspect's hands:
Definition
Reactionary gap
Term
This is the amount of time it takes for the brain to process a threat in the body to respond:
Definition
Reaction time principle
Term
Using your hands to move the subject away is called:
Definition
Redirection
Term
These are techniques used to control resistant behavior by utilizing pain compliance:
Definition
Pressure points
Term
Touching the location of a nerve or sensitive area and applying continual, uninterrupted
pressure is called:
Definition
Touch pressure
Term
This is a mobilizing the subjects had so that the subject cannot move or escape:
Definition
Stabilization
Term
To prevent an adrenaline surge you should apply pressure for more than:
Definition
3-5 seconds
Term
these techniques are used to move a subject from one point to another with mechanical
compliance:
Definition
Transporters
Term
The opening on a handcuffed in which the key is inserted is called:
Definition
Key way
Term
The inside of the handcuffs connected to the cheek plate that housed the teeth is called:
Definition
Pawl
Term
This is a physical Frisk of a subject in a predetermined pattern to locate weapons:
Definition
Pat down
Term
This is facts or circumstances which reasonably indicate that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a violation:
Definition
Reasonable suspicion
Term
The officer may seize any object whose comp or en masse he was she identifies as a parent contraband under the:
Definition
Plain feel doctrine
Term
This is used when a subject is taken into custody in an unsecure environment:
Definition
Custodial search technique
Term
This is dividing the body into four sections horizontally and vertically:
Definition
Quadrant search approach
Term
This is any impact technique using hands, arms, elbows, feet, legs, knees, or had strikes to a
subject in an offensive or defensive situation:
Definition
Empty-hand striking technique
Term
What level of force is an empty hand straight to the throat?
Definition
Deadly force
Term
What level of force is an empty hand straight to the head?
Definition
Non-deadly force
Term
What level of force is an empty hand strike to the side of the neck?
Definition
Non-deadly force
Term
What are the two methods of delivering strikes?
Definition
Penetration and snap-back
Term
There are two different types of strikes, they are:
Definition
Swinging and thrusting
Term
This delivery method is retracted very quickly, thus enabling multiple strikes:
Definition
Snap-back
Term
What is the technique that interrupts the subject’s concentration so that energy is redirected
from the current focus?
Definition
Distraction
Term
This is a physical restraint compressing certain veins and arteries in the neck that cause the
subject to lose consciousness:
Definition
Vascular neck restraint
Term
On the techniques are completely risk-free, is there any medical reason to expect the vascular
neck restraint to be deadly?
Definition
No
Term
These are tools used when empty-handed control is ineffective, but the subjects all of resistance
does not merit deadly force:
Definition
Intermediate weapons
Term
This is any weapon used for striking:
Definition
Impact weapon
Term
This is a type of incapacitation that causes temporary impairment of muscular control:
Definition
Temporary motor dysfunction
Term
Unconventional impact weapons are also known :
Definition
Weapons of opportunity
Term
Striking a going with an impact weapon is what level of force?
Definition
Deadly force
Term
Striking the side of the subject’s neck that impact weapon is what level of force?
Definition
Deadly force
Term
.Jabbing the center of an abdomen with an impact weapon is what level of force?
Definition
Non-deadly force
Term
The most common techniques using an impact weapon are weapon strikes, weapon swings,
and:
Definition
Impact weapon thrusts, impact weapon swings, impact weapon blocks
Term
During handgun retention which individual has the upper hand?
Definition
Whoever has the gun’s barrel
Term
Against an edge weapon, taking the subject down in a prone position is what kind of defense
movement?
Definition
Control
Term
A redirection of an edged weapon is simply called a call-in down one line when you capture the
weapon are it is considered this type of defensive movement:
Definition
Redirect
Term
Moving or pivoting away from your attacker when faced with an edged weapon is called:
Definition
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