I dont have a job anymore. I have been waiting. [chanting] save our job save our job i have demonstrators here at the entrance. 104, keep me informed. Folks, my name is officer bryson. Can you all quiet down so we can talk about this. You cant gather in this area. There are other areas you can demonstrate. Listen, you are blocking the way into the building. You are creating a safety hazard. You are breaking the law. Leave the area now. I am at the south entrance. The demonstrators refused to disperse. I will need some assistance down here. A potential threat. Every day all over the country Law Enforcement officers are placed in a situation such as this one where they must take immediate action to neutralize the danger. Its a way of life for everyone with a badge. Splitsecond decisions they must make regarding the use of force necessary to control the situation that could change lives. The responsibility is monumental. Human lives truly do weigh in the battle. But the trained professionals of the Law EnforcementTraining Center recognize the critical nature of these daytoday decisions. As a result they have designed a use of force model that can help identify and interpret various levels within any given situation and suggest corresponding standardized responses to each of these. The purpose of this program is to provide officers and students alike with a graphic illustration of that model. The use of force model is a graphic illustration that will be referenced by all of the divisions throughout your training here at the center. It describes escalation or deescalation of the required force based upon our demonstrated level of compliance or resistance from a subject. Its purpose is to help create standardized responses based on an officers reasonable perception of a threat. As you can see, this model illustrates five levels of threat and their five corresponding responses. The bottom level is blue and illustrates the lowest level of activity in the model. This activity includes normal daytoday nonthreatening activity such as verbal communication with complaint citizens. The green level describes the procession of nonviolent resistance by suspect which calls were an increased level of verbal communication by the officer, in conjunction with a physical response of the contact control. Moving up the model to the yellow tier signals the need for increased officer awareness due to the recognized threat of active awareness. At this point there has been no assault on the officer. Therefore the use of control techniques should only be employed to handle the situation. The orange tier describes an officers perception of imminent bodily harm to himself or to others based on an assaulted posture our hospital resistance by the suspect. This level calls for selfdefense technique, along with threat elimination strategies. The highest level of threat is depicted here at the red tier, where imminent serious Bodily Injury or death may resolve. If a threat on this injury is perceived, the officer must maintain the highest level of Risk Assessment and be prepared to use survival skills, including deadly force. As you can see, the model also supports doublesided arrows running from the blue tier to the red tier. The arrows represent a logical and legal cause and effect based upon a reasonable perception of risk. They illustrate that an officer has the option to escalate, deescalate, jump between the tiers or maintain the level of force that he or she deems appropriate to gain and maintain control of the suspect in the situation. Its a dynamic model, isnt it . In theory it effectively defines upon perception, but what about the real world . Does the use of force model apply in a lifeline operation . Lets continue the scenario we saw earlier to see if it does. Save our jobs save our jobs all right, listen up. Listen up. Can yall quiet down so we can talk about this . Quiet, maam. I dont like the idea of the plant closing anymore than you do. You have a right to voice your opinion, but this is not the place to do it. You have to move along. You are creating a hazard. Not a chance. We are not going anywhere until we get answers. I understand how you feel. I know times are tough. Right now you are breaking the law. If you dont leave now i will have to arrest you. What do you know about tough times . You are upstairs in your cozy office. I put my heart and soul into this plant. I worked myself to death with these crummy wages. Now they are moving out of the country. What about us . What about our families and retirements . I know you are upset, there are better ways to deal with this. You can take it to the courts or hold legal demonstrations, but you cannot demonstrate here. Its illegal and creating a hazard for other people. We did not come down here to talk to you. We came to talk to somebody else. We are here to do something about this now. Hold on, lets just cool down and talk about this. We are through talking about it. For the last time, im telling you to move away from this area now. Get the hell out of my face. Thats it, you are under arrest. [shouting] what the hell are you doing . Get your hands off. If you do not leave right now, i will arrest you too. I pay your salary, pal. You are supposed to be protecting me. Im not going anywhere and you can go to hell. You are under arrest. Turn around and put your hands over your head. I am not going anywhere. Drop the knife. What are you going to do, shoot me . I will if i have to. Drop the knife. This isnt fair. Drop the knife, now. Toss it over there, now. Hands over your head. Turn around. Dont move. Were you able to distinguish tiers of the model . Remember, compliance, passive resistance, active resistance, assault with a threat or bodily harm, or assault with a threat of serious bodily harm or death. Lets see if we can locate them. Right at the beginning, when our demonstrators had just arrived at the steps, we were at that first tier of the model. Officer bryson utilizes her communication skills in the hopes they will become compliant and leave the area without incident. She is not successful in that attempt. When special agent hail arrives on the scene, he starts on the first level trying to resolve the problem by gaining their compliance. We know that did not work either. The demonstrators continue in their posture of passive resistance. However, one of the demonstrators crosses the line, becoming actively resistant. But by escalating his level of enforcement tactics in response to this active resistance, agent hale was successful in taking control of one of the demonstrators. A second suspect also becomes actively resistant, and charges the agent. After being pushed away, the subject becomes extremely belligerent. The agent continues to gain compliance, but to no avail. The suspect escalates the situation to the fourth level of the model by pulling a knife. Recognizing the risk of bodily harm and that intermediate weapon, such as batons or chemical sprays are inappropriate because of the level of threat, our officers draw their weapons in response to the assault. The threat deescalates quickly from here. Our demonstrator becomes compliant and our officers take control of the situation. Or do they . Remember, there are five tiers to the model. We all know that situations can begin at any one of the levels of the model or move from one to the other in an instant. Prepared botht be mentally and physically to administer the proper response, based on the level of resistance he perceives. With that in mind, lets rejoin the officers and see if the situation is really under control. Get him inside. Get him inside, now. He didnt do anything. [gunshot] its not often that an officer is forced into a response in the fifth tier of the model, but he must nonetheless be ready to take that action. If an assault by a suspect or there is anyone else in danger of serious bodily harm, he has the right and the commission to protect himself and the others around him. The use of deadly force is a serious matter. But its an option that sometimes becomes necessary. So, in the final analysis, the goal of the use of force model is to help officers maintain a high degree of enforcement readiness. That readiness manifests itself in two ways. A willingness to keep enforcement responses on the lowest tier possible, use forceful use of sophisticated strategy. Second, in the resolve of escalation of the appropriate response whenever necessary to protect human life and to maintain control of the situation. It is absolutely essential that all Law Enforcement officers understand the precepts of the use of force model and are fully confident of their ability to navigate up and down and in between the five tiers. Lets briefly recap. The blue level is the lowest level, representing daytoday nonthreatening activity. The green level represents passive or nonviolence resistance, and calls for an increased level of verbal communication and contact control if necessary. The yellow tier signals active resistance and calls for increased awareness and compliance techniques. Orange warns of hostile resistance and imminent bodily harm to the officer or to others and calls for selfdefense techniques. And the red tier represents the threat of serious Bodily Injury or death and calls for the use of deadly force if necessary. 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