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DAAT TTerms
Disturbance Resolution Model
Question | Answer |
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Active Resistance | Behavior which physically counteracts an officer’s control efforts and which creates a risk of bodily harm to the officer, subject, and/or other persons. |
Assaultive Behavior | Direct actions or conduct that generates bodily harm. |
B.A.C. | Blood Alcohol Concentration |
Baton | A police impact weapon used to impede an adversary by striking parts of the body. |
Continued Resistance | Maintaining a level of counteractive behavior that is not controlled by an officer’s current efforts |
Control Process | Achieving control of a contact or situation through presence and dialogue, or, if necessary, through physical intervention. |
Control | The purpose of an officer's use of Defensive and Arrest Tactics is control. |
DAAT | A system of verbalization coupled with physical alternatives for Wisconsin law enforcement. |
Deadly Force | The intentional use of a firearm or other instrument that creates a high probability of death or great bodily harm. |
Disturbance Resolution | A higher level of verbal control than a basic contact. Examples are arbitration and mediation, which are used to defuse dangerous situations. Also, the conceptual model for officer's use of intervention options. |
Due Regard | Phrase implying that a reasonably careful person, performing similar duties and acting under similar circumstances, would act in the same manner. |
Dysfunction | Temporary disruption of the subject’s ability to resist or attack. |
ECD | Electronic control device. |
Great Bodily Harm | Means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or other serious bodily injury. |
Greater Danger Exception | The greater danger exception allows you to shoot without target isolation if the consequence of not stopping the threat would be worse than the possibility of hitting an innocent person. |
Imminent Threat | An impending likelihood of trouble; in this context, “Imminent Threat” of death or great bodily harm to you or another is a justification for the use of deadly force. |
Mediation | A conflict resolution strategy to assist disputants in voluntarily reaching a mutually acceptable decision. |
Negligence | For civil litigation in some states, it is the failure of a law enforcement officer to conform his or her conduct to the standard of a reasonable law enforcement officer under the same or similar circumstances. |
Objectively Reasonable | The standard by which many actions of a police officer are judged: Would your actions be judged appropriate by a reasonable person based on the totality of circumstances and the information known to you at that time? |
Officer Subject Factors | criterion used in evaluating a subject and selecting the appropriate response option. How officer(s) “match up” to the subject, how many officers are there compared to the number of subjects, as well as age, size, relative strength, and skill. |
Passive Resistance | Non-compliant and non-threatening behavior. |
Perception | (1) Awareness of objects and other data through the medium of the senses, and (2) having insight or intuition as an abstract quality. |
Physical Force | Intervention using bodily activity or equipment. |
Physical Intervention | To establish and maintain control with the use of specific psychomotor skills. |
Preclusion | The officer reasonably believes all other options have been exhausted or would be ineffective. |
Presence | A person’s bearing which appears self-assured and effective and commands respectful attention. |
Primary Threat | The adversary armed with the most dangerous weapon or the one immediately capable of inflicting great bodily harm or death. |
Privilege 939.45 | Certain conduct is defensible from prosecution under certain circumstances. The defense of privilege can be claimed: conduct is in defense of persons or property, conduct is in good faith, and conduct is a reasonable accomplishment of a lawful arrest. |
Resistive Tension | Level of agitation in a subject’s body. |
Totality of the Circumstances | Represents all information known to the officer at the moment action is taken and the facts used to judge the appropriateness of the action. |
Uncooperative Subject | Person who will not comply with verbal direction. |
Verbal Control | Directions issued by the officer to command the adversary what to do |
Verbal Stun | A short, very loud, shouted verbal command that serves as a warning and may impede the subject’s neuro-muscular function. |
Verbal Warning | clear command, followed by a contingency, which is a statement of your intended actions if your order is not obeyed. |
Vertical Stun | Create dysfunction by directing the subject into a vertical surface (e.g., a wall). |
Voluntary Compliance | Willingly submitting or yielding. |
Weapon | Any instrument or device used for attack or defense in a fight or in combat. |
D.O.N.E. | Danger Overriding Concern No progress Escape |
Focused Strikes | Intended to create dysfunction and disrupt the subject's ability to continue resistive or assaultive behavior. |
Incapacitating Technique | The goal of incapacitating techniques is to cause the immediate, temporary cessation of violent behavior. |
Diffused Strike | Disrupts nerve impulses to the brain. Unlike the Vertical Stun, however, the effect is usually greater, rendering the subject temporarily unconscious. |
Purpose of Deadly Force | To stop the threat. |
Imminent Threat Criteria | -Weapon -Intent -Delivery System |
Target Requirements | Target acquisition Target identification Target isolation |
Justification for Deadly Force | Behavior which has caused or imminently threatens to cause death or great bodily harm to you or another person or persons |