Regulating the Reasonableness of Police Violence
The legal standard governing police force provides inadequate guidance to police officers and the courts.
Professor Seth W. Stoughton is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. His scholarship on the regulation of police has appeared in the Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, The New York Times, and other publications. He also served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years.
The legal standard governing police force provides inadequate guidance to police officers and the courts.