Police Use of Force: Down and Dirty
Police use of force (UoF) law is a cloud of convoluted cases and statutes. We have structured the seemingly unrelated issues together into a comprehensive template that includes: Search, Seizure, Force, and Intrusion. The below chalkboard schematic is unapologetically a work-in-progress, but we unveil it here to demonstrate its usefulness in Seizure and Force issues (it can also be used to dissect levels of intrusion while performing searches...which is why we call it a "combined" template.) The Illinois Model's latest draft of "S&S, Force, Intrusion" template. (May 2013) First and foremost, it is absolutely impossible to discuss UoF without beginning with Fourth Amendment Search & Seizure (S&S). This can be termed lawful placement or lawful foundation or lawful authority . Police officers must first begin with a lawful objective in mind: Defense of self Defense of others Investigative detention Criminal arrest Custody for involunt