PERSISTENT SENSORY MEMORY AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE.
Law enforcement officers have used force against vehicles and subjects that were perceived as still moving and/or threatening, though in...
CONSPIRACY THEORIES, OCCAM’S RAZOR, AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
There are times, when a law enforcement use of force is evaluated in public by a law enforcement executive, politician, the media, and/or...
ROBOTS, REMOTES, AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
Following the murders of five Dallas Police Department officers in July 2016, Chief David Brown ended the suspect's violent activity and...
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE AGAINST MOVING VEHICLES
The use of force against a driver or occupant of a moving vehicle by a law enforcement officer has been a source of public criticism and,...
“FRIGHTENED” POLICE AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
Following their significant use of force, some law enforcement officers state, “I was in fear of my life.” Resultant criticisms of the...
UNEQUAL TREATMENT? THE CIVILIAN AND LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
During a law enforcement use of force investigation, or following a jury’s decision, one may hear a criticism to the effect of, “If a...
CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
Sometimes the result a single critical incident, communities and law enforcement agencies may organize a civilian oversight board to...
SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM REACTIONS AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
The human sympathetic nervous system (SNS) releases adrenaline into the body during elevated states of arousal (stress). This “fight or...
HUMAN PATTERN RECOGNITION AND THE LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE
The conscious mind can process approximately 100 pieces of information a second, of the potential 2,000,000 bits of information that...