Liability Exam 2025 – 100% Verified Questions
& Complete Elaborated Solutions | Defensive
Tactics, Use of Force, Officer Safety & Survival
Stress Response.
Defensive tactics
is a system of controlled defensive and offensive body movements used by criminal justice
officers to respond to a subject's aggression or resistance
cardiovascular conditioning
is any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range of 60 to 85% of the maximum rate
examples: walking, jogging, running, jumping rope, bicycling, swimming, and step aerobics
Chapter 776, F.S.
Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers.
Chapter 944, F.S.
Specifically addresses the use of force by state correctional and correctional probation officers.
objective reasonableness
to describe the process for evaluating the appropriateness of an officer's response to a subject's
resistance
compliance
is the verbal and / or physical yielding to an officer's Authority without apparent threat of
resistance or violence
escalation
is increasing the use of force or resistance
de-escalation
is decreasing the use of force or resistance
disengagement
, is discontinuing a command or physical use of force, for example, by breaking away from a
subject
Force guidelines
provide a framework for making decisions involving the reasonable use of force by criminal
justice officers
passive resistance
is a subject-verb oh and / or physical refusal to comply with an officer's lawful Direction causing
the officer to use physical techniques to establish control
• the subject refuses to move at the officers direction
• the subject refuses to leave the vehicle when arrested during a traffic stop
• the subject refuses to take his hands out of his pockets or from behind his back
active resistance
is a subject use of physically evasive movements directed toward the officer such as bracing,
tensing, or pulling to prevent the officer from establishing control over the subject
• the subject physically anchors himself to a person or object to prevent himself from being
removed
• the subject braces or pulls away from the officer when the officer grips the subjects arm
• the subject attempts to run when the officer touches or attempts to grab the subjects arm or
shoulder
aggressive resistance
is a subject attacking movement toward an officer that may cause injury but are not likely to
cause death or great bodily harm to the officer or others
• the subject balls up his fist and approaches the officer
• the subject pushes the officer back as the officer tries to take the subject into custody
• the subject grabs any part of the officers body
deadly force resistance
is a subject hostel, attacking movements with or without a weapon that create a reasonable
preception by the officer that the subject and tends to cause and has the capability of causing
death or great bodily harm to the officer or others
• a subject refuses to drop a knife when ordered two by the officer and moves towards the
officer
• a subject shoots or point a gun at an officer or another person
• a subject tries to use a vehicle to run down an officer