Active Assailants and Active Resistors

Key Terms and Definitions in the New Jersey Use of Force Policy

• The policy defines an active assailant as someone who is using or threatening to use force in an aggressive manner that poses a substantial risk of bodily injury to an officer or another person.
• An active resistor is someone who actively resists an officer's attempts at physical control, including evasive movement or flight.
• Bodily injury is defined as physical pain or temporary disfigurement, or any impairment of physical condition.
• A civil disturbance is defined as an assembly of persons engaged in or creating an immediate threat of collective violence, destruction of property, looting, or other criminal acts.
• A chokehold is defined as a technique that involves applying direct pressure to a person's trachea or airway with the effect of reducing the intake of air.
• A conducted energy device (CED) is defined as any device approved by the Attorney General that is capable of firing darts/electrodes that transmit an electrical charge or current intended to temporarily disable a person.
• Constructive authority involves the use of an officer's authority, such as verbal commands or unholstering a weapon, to exert control over a subject without physical contact.
• A cooperative person is someone who responds to and complies with an officer's directions.
• The Critical Decision-Making Model is an organized way of making decisions about how an officer will act in any situation, including those that may involve potential uses of force.
• De-escalation refers to the action of communicating verbally or non-verbally in an attempt to reduce, stabilize, or eliminate the immediacy of a threat.
• Deadly force is force that an officer uses with the purpose of causing, or that a reasonable officer knows creates a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury.
• Proportional force is the minimum amount of force necessary to control a situation and achieve a legitimate law enforcement objective, while tactical communication and positioning are methods to avoid or minimize the use of force.

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