PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Flashlight, Pepper Spray, Pain Tolerance
15 Mar 2018
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Police research, use of force & excited delirium syndrome. Risk assessment: situational factors: location, time of day, mental state, etc, officer perceptions: stress levels, training & experience, etc, subject behaviour: cooperative, passive resistant, active resistant, assaultive & threat of injury, tactical considerations: weapons, resources, vehicles, etc. Use of force: used in . 1% of all police occurrences. Psyc2400 march 5, 2018: uof draw/display (deterrent) & uof applied both used equally (50/50 split, tasers used in less than . 1% of all occurrences, drawn/display (deterrent) more often than applied. Implications: police resourcing, more officers on scene, the lower the risk of injury, policy, training, equipment, tasers & oc sprays have low officer-subject injury rates but have low rates of effectiveness. Your brain & fear: thalamus breaks down our auditory visual cues, prefrontal cortex vital to turning off anxiety responses, fear is essential to survival.
