A Police Officer May Not Use Deadly Force Against a Fleeing

question 39

True/False

A police officer may not use deadly force against a fleeing felon who poses an imminent threat to the police or to the public.

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Definitions:

Regression Toward the Mean

A statistical phenomenon wherein extreme scores on one occasion tend to be closer to the average on subsequent testing.

Illusory Correlation

A cognitive bias where people falsely perceive an association between two unrelated events or variables.

Random Assignment

A procedure in experimental designs that ensures each participant has an equal chance of being placed into any group, reducing biases.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution of data, often using the mean, median, or mode.