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A Supreme Court case that established the objective reasonableness standard for evaluating the use of force by law enforcement officers.
Federal courts assess federal officers’ use of lethal force under the Fourth Amendment’s objective “reasonableness” framework from Graham v. Connor, which instructs judges and juries to evaluate wheth...
When officers shoot a suspect after disarming or removing an obvious weapon, legal precedent and prosecutorial practice create a high bar for criminal charges or discipline: the ’s excessive-force fra...
policy defines as force that carries a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury and expressly limits firing at moving vehicles to narrow circumstances where an officer reasonably bel...
Deadly force—firing a gun—is legally permitted to U.S. law enforcement only when an officer has a reasonable belief that a person poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the offi...
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Barnes v. Felix reaffirmed that Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims must be judged by the "totality of the circumstances," rejecting a narrow "moment-of-thre...
The baseline federal rule for deadly force against moving vehicles is restrictive: federal guidance bars discharging firearms solely to disable a vehicle and permits deadly force only when an officer ...