“Officer-Created Jeopardy: Broadening the Time Frame for Assessing a Police Officer’s Use of Deadly Force,”
This Article argues that courts overseeing criminal prosecutions of police officers should broaden the time frame and allow juries assessing the reasonableness of the officer’s use of deadly force to consider pre-shooting conduct of the officer that created or increased the risk of a deadly confrontation. Broadening the time frame is an important way to encourage law enforcement officers to take the steps needed to prevent police-civilian encounters from ending in death or serious bodily injury.