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  2. SAFE-T Act - Wikipedia

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    The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.

  3. Fleeing felon rule - Wikipedia

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    Under U.S. law the fleeing felon rule was limited in 1985 to non-lethal force in most cases by Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1.The justices held that deadly force "may not be used unless necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others."

  4. Forcible felony - Wikipedia

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    Some states have adopted a "forcible felony rule", under which police are only authorized to use deadly force to apprehend people suspected of forcible felonies. [1] Prior to the Supreme Court's 1985 decision in Tennessee v. Garner, this was a minority position, and many states authorized deadly force to apprehend any fleeing felon. [2]

  5. Deadly force - Wikipedia

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    Deadly force, also known as lethal force, is the use of force that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death to another person. In most jurisdictions, the use of deadly force is justified only under conditions of extreme necessity as a last resort , when all lesser means have failed or cannot reasonably be employed.

  6. Stand-your-ground law - Wikipedia

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    Whether a jurisdiction follows stand-your-ground or duty-to-retreat is just one element of its self-defense laws. Different jurisdictions allow deadly force against different crimes. All American states allow it against prior deadly force, great bodily injury, and likely kidnapping or rape; some also allow it against threat of robbery and burglary.

  7. Police use of deadly force in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, use of deadly force by police has been a high-profile and contentious issue. [1] In 2022, 1,096 people were killed by police shootings according to The Washington Post , [ 2 ] while according to the "Mapping Police Violence" (MPV) project, 1,176 people were killed by police in total.

  8. Self-defense (United States) - Wikipedia

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    When the use of deadly force is involved in a self-defense claim, the person must also reasonably believe that their use of deadly force is immediately necessary to prevent the other's infliction of great bodily harm or death. [3] Most states no longer require a person to retreat before using deadly force. In the minority of jurisdictions which ...

  9. List of police reforms related to the George Floyd protests

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    The law also requires additional training for Minnesota peace officers. [67] Also signed into law was a statutory duty to intercede. Section 626.8475 of the Minnesota statutes requires peace officers to intercede in the event of unlawful use of deadly force or excessive force, and when present and able to do so.