FLETC UPTP 2027 SETS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Core Values of LEO - ✔✔Integrity
Fairness
Respect
Honesty
Courage
Compassion
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle, absolute
truthfulness, and honesty
✔✔Fairness - ✔✔Freedom from prejudice or favoritism
✔✔Respect - ✔✔Acknowledging the rights and values of others
✔✔Honesty - ✔✔Telling the truth, being trustworthy, reliable and sincere
✔✔Courage - ✔✔The personal ability to face difficulty with resolve without excessive
fear
✔✔Compassion - ✔✔Ability to restore order to others lives while controlling and
understanding personal feelings
✔✔Why use intermediate weapons? - ✔✔Deter the suspects threat
Overcome his/her active resistance
Stop flight
✔✔True/False intermediate weapons are used for compliance - ✔✔False, used for
control techniques. Just because a suspect is non compliant doesn't necessarily make
this use of force reasonable. Generally the use of intermediate weapons falls under the
range of reasonableness when the suspect poses an immediate threat.
, ✔✔What did the court rule in Tennessee v. Garner? - ✔✔Supreme Court ruled that it
was unreasonable to kill an unarmed burglary suspect by shooting him in the back of
the head.
✔✔What is qualified immunity? - ✔✔Officer's defense to standing trial in a civil case for
a constitutional tort. When raised the burden is on the plaintiff to present sufficient facts
that the officer violated a clearly established constitutional right
✔✔What are the 2 ways to get qualified immunity? - ✔✔If the judge finds that 1. The
force was constitutional or 2. That the law was not clearly established at the time
✔✔Why did the Officer in Tennessee v. Garner receive qualified immunity? - ✔✔At the
time of the shooting, Tennessee law states that all necessary force was authorized to
stop a fleeing felon. Therefore, the law was not clearly established.
✔✔What does the court state in Graham v. Connor? - ✔✔Court held that all claims that
LEO's have used excessive force - deadly or not - in the course of an arrest,
investigatory stop or other seizure of a free citizen should be analyzed under the 4th
amendment and its objective reasonableness standard.
The reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of
a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with 20/20 hindsight.
✔✔What are the Graham factors? - ✔✔Severity of the crime
Immediacy of the threat
Whether the suspect was actively resisting arrest
Whether the suspect was attempting to evade arrest by flight
✔✔What some other factors not included in Graham Factors? - ✔✔Totality if
circumstances
Number if suspects vs. officers
Size, age, weight, and condition of Officer vs. suspect
Previous violent history
Psychiatric history
Alcohol or drug use
Presence of innocent bystanders
Time of day/lighting conditions
✔✔When is deadly force objectively reasonable? - ✔✔Deadly force fan be objectively
reasonable when an officer believes there is probable cause that the suspect poses
significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others and the officer
gives warning when feasible
SET A+
✔✔Core Values of LEO - ✔✔Integrity
Fairness
Respect
Honesty
Courage
Compassion
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle, absolute
truthfulness, and honesty
✔✔Fairness - ✔✔Freedom from prejudice or favoritism
✔✔Respect - ✔✔Acknowledging the rights and values of others
✔✔Honesty - ✔✔Telling the truth, being trustworthy, reliable and sincere
✔✔Courage - ✔✔The personal ability to face difficulty with resolve without excessive
fear
✔✔Compassion - ✔✔Ability to restore order to others lives while controlling and
understanding personal feelings
✔✔Why use intermediate weapons? - ✔✔Deter the suspects threat
Overcome his/her active resistance
Stop flight
✔✔True/False intermediate weapons are used for compliance - ✔✔False, used for
control techniques. Just because a suspect is non compliant doesn't necessarily make
this use of force reasonable. Generally the use of intermediate weapons falls under the
range of reasonableness when the suspect poses an immediate threat.
, ✔✔What did the court rule in Tennessee v. Garner? - ✔✔Supreme Court ruled that it
was unreasonable to kill an unarmed burglary suspect by shooting him in the back of
the head.
✔✔What is qualified immunity? - ✔✔Officer's defense to standing trial in a civil case for
a constitutional tort. When raised the burden is on the plaintiff to present sufficient facts
that the officer violated a clearly established constitutional right
✔✔What are the 2 ways to get qualified immunity? - ✔✔If the judge finds that 1. The
force was constitutional or 2. That the law was not clearly established at the time
✔✔Why did the Officer in Tennessee v. Garner receive qualified immunity? - ✔✔At the
time of the shooting, Tennessee law states that all necessary force was authorized to
stop a fleeing felon. Therefore, the law was not clearly established.
✔✔What does the court state in Graham v. Connor? - ✔✔Court held that all claims that
LEO's have used excessive force - deadly or not - in the course of an arrest,
investigatory stop or other seizure of a free citizen should be analyzed under the 4th
amendment and its objective reasonableness standard.
The reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of
a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with 20/20 hindsight.
✔✔What are the Graham factors? - ✔✔Severity of the crime
Immediacy of the threat
Whether the suspect was actively resisting arrest
Whether the suspect was attempting to evade arrest by flight
✔✔What some other factors not included in Graham Factors? - ✔✔Totality if
circumstances
Number if suspects vs. officers
Size, age, weight, and condition of Officer vs. suspect
Previous violent history
Psychiatric history
Alcohol or drug use
Presence of innocent bystanders
Time of day/lighting conditions
✔✔When is deadly force objectively reasonable? - ✔✔Deadly force fan be objectively
reasonable when an officer believes there is probable cause that the suspect poses
significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others and the officer
gives warning when feasible
