ApexOS Advisory: Policy, Safety & Leadership Blog

Ask most officers what their use-of-force policy says, and they'll tell you the substance. Ask a plaintiff's attorney, and they'll tell you something different: whether the agency was consistent about 'shall,' 'should,' and 'may.' That inconsistency, not the substance of the policy, is the single most common way agency-written policy fails when it's actually tested. Mandatory, expected, and discretionary aren't interchangeable 'Shall' means mandatory, no exceptions absent a d