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Liability Issues
• The court will probably also examine:
• Look at the conduct of other officers who were
present and/or participated in the actions.
• The conduct of supervisors who may have
authorized the actions of officers.
Liability Issues
• It is likely that the training the officers
received will be closely examined to resolve
the following questions:
• Were the actions of the officers consistent with
their training?
• Was the training adequate and acceptable by
contemporary standards?
• If the officers were not trained does it amount
to “deliberate indifference” on the part of the
agency?
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