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Discussions about police use of force require careful attention to definitions. The terms use of excessive force and excessive use of force are often used interchangeably when in fact they have different meanings.

Use of excessive force refers to incidents where police apply too much force, while excessive use of force refers to police applying force legally in too many incidents....

U.S. Dept. of Justice,
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Special Report, June 2006, NCJ 210296

So it has come to this—my dissenting colleagues would require police officers to gamble with their lives in order to avoid civil liability. It is one thing for courts to deny qualified immunity on the basis of a violation of clearly established law. It is quite another to demand as a condition of that immunity that officers actually await the bullet. (Chief Judge Wilkinson, Opinion, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Docket Sheet 96-1150 Elliott v. Leavitt)

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