This is the Chicago PD’s Use of Force Model:
AE is, apparently, correct, though I would use the term proportional response, i.e., an officer is allowed to enter the fray at the level he needs to, he doesn’t have to walk through each lower level if the situation warrants going immediately to some higher level.
But notice the objective is control of the subject. When you’ve got control, you don’t take it any further. If you do, the reasonableness standard will be applied, which, as I noted earlier, is an objective standard, and therefore NOT dependent on the officer’s personal opinion of his own danger, but the reasonableness of his judgment.
Furthermore, notice that even the amount of tissue damage is to be weighed in the decision. This is not a standard that would be applied to a relative amateur, a private CC carrier, so yes the standard is different, in that even though the design of the law is to give the police the ability to do their job, nevertheless they have to be even more careful than the rest of us in the application of lethal force. If an officer cannot walk that walk and chew that gum at the same time, he or she does not deserve to wear the badge of trust we give them.
Peace,
SR
Important to remember that LEOs have the duty to act, to make the arrest or confront/terminate the threat, whereas private c.c.w. citizens and even security officers do not.
Thanks for posting the link.
Is a subject who is commanded to stop but doesn’t stop under control?
Is a subject with a hand in the pocket who is commanded to show his hand under control?
Is a person wielding a knife within striking distance and is commanded to drop the knife, but doesn’t, under control?
The defense will also bring up the subject being on PCP.