PoliceOne: How to protect your career by writing better use-of-force reports by Matt Stiehm:<\/p>\n
We must change our \u201cless is more\u201d mentality on UOF reports to a \u201cmore is more\u201d mindset for the next generation of police officers<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officers are trained to document every minute detail in every criminal investigation, incident, or traffic collision. But officers are too frequently failing to appropriately document the application of force \u2014 they too often fail to articulate the objective reasonableness of force they used on a subject. <\/p>\n
As you know, law enforcement and the use of force is governed by the United States Constitution Fourth Amendment, appropriate state statutes. The reality is that the United States Supreme Court\u2019s interpretation of the Fourth Amendment in Graham v. Connor provided clarity for what is objectively reasonable for the application of force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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