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Hey Small Town Fam, welcome to the briefing room.

Every day in police stations across the world law enforcement officers begin their shift with briefing. Briefings are essential to communication and allow officers and command staff to discuss calls for service, crime trends, case law, wanted subjects, training opportunities.

And policy changes. Briefing rooms provide a setting where the team can speak with each other candidly and openly.

We wanted to create a similar setting for our listeners. The briefing room series will include intimate and formal conversations about training issues, viral videos, guidance and training from detectives, as well as commentary on other topics impacting law enforcement and the true crime community. So welcome to the briefing room.

Today on the briefing room, we thought it would be really informative to talk about some case law, which greatly informs how police officers are expected to do their jobs out in the field.

So have with me detective Dan. Hello team. Hello you and I have detective Dave. Hello Small Town Fam. All righty Dan, classes in session start us off.

So basically when we talk about case law, it's it's an ongoing curriculum for police officers. It's a constant update for us every year. We have training on new case law and on case law that's maybe been affected by other decisions.

So for this episode, the two cases we're talking about here are Tennessee versus Garner and Graham versus Conor. Now Tennessee versus Garner, this case happened in 74. It wasn't ruled on until 1985 by the Supreme Court.

But this case has to do with the right of the police to shoot a fleeing felon. So we'll talk about that one and the other case is Graham V Conor. This case was ruled on by the Supreme Court in 1989.

And what this case did was it created a three prong test for officers use of force decisions.

And it's the basis of how officers are judged in use of force situations today in 2022. These two cases are landmark decisions that have survived all kinds of challenges over the years going through being re-evaluated by the courts.

They've all been affirmed. These are solid decisions and they're not going anywhere. This is how cases are evaluated by district attorneys who are examining whether or not the police used a reasonable amount of force.

What these two cases basically revolve around is reasonableness. And that's a word that we use in law enforcement quite frequently. Every use of force has to be reasonable when we talk about how officers react in the decisions they make.

We use the reasonableness test to gauge whether or not a similarly trained officer with similar experience would make decisions similar to the officer in question.

So these cases and other cases provide a framework for how police officers do what they do out on the street every day.

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