Police officers are armed with guns, tasers, extendable batons, and mace, and most are trained in hand-to-hand combat. The NYPD is one of the most highly trained police forces on the planet. When a police officer makes an arrest, under Federal & State law they are only allowed to use the amount of force reasonably necessary to help secure an arrest. Unfortunately, as we have seen for decades, officers sometimes ignore Federal & State laws and may sometimes use an amount of force that the law deems excessive. Actions like that tend to wind up severely injuring the very people that those officers are sworn to protect. These injuries can take the form of
