In the two years since Eric Garner was choked to death by an NYPD officer on Staten Island, the country has been embroiled in a heated debate about police officer killings of black civilians and, with the recent deaths of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, about civilian killings of police officers. While concerns about racism and retribution are at the heart of that debate, the series of civilian deaths at the hands of police officers has also focused attention on the legal and policy standards governing police use of force.
Across the country, all police use of force is subject to federal constitutional restrictions, most significantly Fourth Amendment standards. Those standards, however, are quite vague, which leaves police departments with a particularly important role in establishing rules for police use of force.
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