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New Study: More Evidence Against the Myth of “Restraint Asphyxia”

Overwhelming scientific evidence has found that restraining an arrestee in the prone position does not create an exceptional risk of serious injury or death. Yet thanks to allegations leveled by plaintiffs’ attorneys and police critics, the myth of potential harm persists, including the claim that the weight of an officer placing a knee on a...
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What Appeals Court Says Cops Should Know About Prone Positioning

The issue of prone positioning of resistant suspects, which we reported on in a previous article, is back in the news–this time with a US appellate court weighing in with comments on what officers are expected to know about the subject. The case, Bolick v. City of East Grand Rapids (MI), is a civil rights...
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Controversy Sparks Anew Over Alleged Risks of Prone Positioning

A Canadian anesthesiologist has attempted to revive the controversy about alleged risks associated with the prone positioning of arrestees, only to draw an emphatic rebuke from a team of experts on the subject. The physician is Alain Michaud, affiliated with a hospital in Roberval, Quebec. In published correspondence to the Journal of Forensic and Legal...
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How To Deal With Conflict Between Science and Case Law

In a previous Force Science News [4/8/14], we reported a new study by Dr. Darrell Ross, indicating that restraining a violently resisting suspect in the prone position produces “no fatal adverse effects, even when TASER shocks, weight on the subject’s back, and hobbling are employed by officers to gain control.” Ross urged that for the...
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New Study: “No Fatal Risk” In Proning Out Violent Resisters

In a new, broad-based study of violently resisting suspects, a prominent researcher has found that restraint in the prone position produces no fatal adverse effects, even when Taser shocks, weight on the subject’s back, and hobbling are employed by officers to gain control. “No method of control or restraint used in the field produced a...
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Large New Study Details Realities Of Force Use, Including Sudden Deaths

For the first time, a research study of a “very large sample size of real-world subjects” who actually underwent police use of force has determined with precision how often deaths occur in conjunction with forceful encounters. The frequency, in contrast to the impression often conveyed by the media and activist “watchdog” organizations, is extremely minimal,...
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Scientific Probe Challenges Alleged Danger Of Prone Positioning And Hog-tying

The tactic of proning out and “hog-tying” a combative suspect has taken repeated bad raps over the years as a potential cause of arrest-related death. Yet rigorous scientific studies have failed to substantiate the technique’s alleged danger. Now add the findings of yet another research group to the controversy–findings that again seem to support prone...
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AELE Analysis: When Force Against The Mentally Disturbed Is Justified

The scenario is one that’s often in the headlines and ultimately in the courts: A distraught and frightened family calls for help in controlling a mentally disturbed or suicidal relative. When cops respond, the confrontation escalates and the subject ends up injured or dead from police use of force. The family claims the force was...
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Is Prone Positioning Really Riskier For Suspects?

An exaggeration of the sudden in-custody death problem is generating “persecution and prosecution” of LEOs and their agencies and is resulting in “reactionary changes in policy and procedure that may well be based in conjecture rather than fact,” according to new findings by a Canadian research team. In particular the study group challenges the widely...
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