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The second is the difference between injury and pain. Finger locks hurt. OC (pepper spray) hurts. Tasers hurt a lot. The injuries from these are minimal. Loud screams of pain bother people, and they should, but they are qualitatively different from the wet pop of a ligament tearing or the sickening thump of a head hitting concrete.

Some consider the continuum to be an attempt to write a cookie-cutter answer to a chaotic problem, explicitly against the guidance in Graham.

The most compelling argument, to my mind, is that with proper training, the continuum may not be necessary. The bottom line: You are expected and required to use the minimum level of force that you reasonably believe will safely resolve the situation plus understanding the “Factors and Circumstances” of section 1.7 gets to the same place.

I will be describing a continuum here. As a friend once said, “Models are models. Many are useful. None are true.”

The reason is that models make some very important things easy to teach. They are common sense, but sometimes common sense needs a little explanation: