FLORIDA BASIC RECRUIT HIGH LIABILITY CHAPTER 4:
DEFENSIVE TACTICS|| QUESRIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Defensive Tactics: a system of controlled defensive and offensive body move-
ments used by criminal justice officers
2. What should a student do to maximize the benefit if DT training?: Eat a
nutritious diet
Get adequate rest
Stay sufficiently hydrated
3. Cardiovascular Training: Any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range
between 60% to 85% of the maximum rate.
4. Heart Disease: The leading cause of premature death for both men and women.
5. Chapter 776 F.S.: Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers.
Applies equally to Corrections and Correctional Probation Officers
6. Apprehend a Subject and make an Arrest: One of the two general areas in
which an officer's use of force is justified
7. Defend Self or Others: One of the two general areas in which an officer's use of
force is justified
8. Objective Reasonableness: the process for evaluating the appropriateness of
an officer's response to a subject's resistance.
9. Appropriate Force: the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an arrest.
10. Graham v. Connor: determined that the reasonableness of a particular use of
force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the scene
would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hindsight.
11. The Supreme Court has made clear
that use of force is a seizure under what Amendment?: Fourth Amendment
12. Correctional officers must also consider that use of force may violate
which Amendment with regards to cruel and unusual punishment?: Eighth
, Amendment
13. Much litigation against criminal justice officers is not about the amount of
force used, but what?: Whether the use of
force was permitted at all.
14. Compliance: the verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority without
apparent threat of resistance or violence.
15. Escalation: increasing the use of force or resistance
16. De-escalation: decreasing the use of force or resistance
17. Disengagement: discontinuing a command or physical use of force
18. Force Guidelines: provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force
by criminal justice officers.
DEFENSIVE TACTICS|| QUESRIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Defensive Tactics: a system of controlled defensive and offensive body move-
ments used by criminal justice officers
2. What should a student do to maximize the benefit if DT training?: Eat a
nutritious diet
Get adequate rest
Stay sufficiently hydrated
3. Cardiovascular Training: Any exercise that elevates the heart rate to a range
between 60% to 85% of the maximum rate.
4. Heart Disease: The leading cause of premature death for both men and women.
5. Chapter 776 F.S.: Governs all use of force by criminal justice officers.
Applies equally to Corrections and Correctional Probation Officers
6. Apprehend a Subject and make an Arrest: One of the two general areas in
which an officer's use of force is justified
7. Defend Self or Others: One of the two general areas in which an officer's use of
force is justified
8. Objective Reasonableness: the process for evaluating the appropriateness of
an officer's response to a subject's resistance.
9. Appropriate Force: the amount of force reasonably necessary to make an arrest.
10. Graham v. Connor: determined that the reasonableness of a particular use of
force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the scene
would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hindsight.
11. The Supreme Court has made clear
that use of force is a seizure under what Amendment?: Fourth Amendment
12. Correctional officers must also consider that use of force may violate
which Amendment with regards to cruel and unusual punishment?: Eighth
, Amendment
13. Much litigation against criminal justice officers is not about the amount of
force used, but what?: Whether the use of
force was permitted at all.
14. Compliance: the verbal and/or physical yielding to an officer's authority without
apparent threat of resistance or violence.
15. Escalation: increasing the use of force or resistance
16. De-escalation: decreasing the use of force or resistance
17. Disengagement: discontinuing a command or physical use of force
18. Force Guidelines: provide a framework for making decisions involving the
reasonable use of force
by criminal justice officers.
