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Order: “Sir! I am giving you a direct order! Turn around and put your hands behind your back now!” I don’t know why this works so much more often than the ‘advise’ stage, but it does. Maybe it is the shift from polite to command voice.

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Any verbal commands given to the threat should be simple. Some of the criminals that an officer deals with will not be honor students, and might even be impaired by recreational chemicals. No big words. No complicated sentences. When possible, use positive (do) speech, e.g., “put your hands out” and not negative, e.g., “don’t hide your hands.” Tell the threat what to do as opposed to telling the threat what not to do.

The orders should always be given by ONE officer. I feel sorry for the poor criminal facing two guns when one of the officers is yelling, “Don’t move!” and the other is yelling, “Get on the floor! Get down!” Even if the orders are not contradictory, multiple voices are confusing.

Experts. Whenever there is a media-rich Use of Force, experts will come out of the woodwork to tell anyone who will listen that if the officers only had a “little more training” in dealing with emotionally disturbed people or the mentally ill, or the particular (after the fact) diagnosis of the particular threat, the force could have been avoided.