Welcome to the Science of Violence: Biomechanics from Video Evidence training course. This course aims to teach the basics of video necessary to obtain physics derived from video evidence and relate it to complex human injury investigations involving use of force incidents. By the end of this course, you will:
This course will also focus on areas including:
- Identify how Newton’s laws of motion related to Use of Force investigations can be derived from video.
- Demonstrate how video analysis is currently limited to distance and timing.
- Discuss how biomechanics including applied load can be obtained from video footage.
- Demonstrate how specific video analysis can prove threatening positions vs. non-threatening positions.
- Explore multiple case studies where deriving biomechanics from video was critical in understanding the violent event in both 2 and 3-dimensions.
Our training experts recommend this course for all officers, ranks, and command staff.
Instructor: Geoffrey Desmoulin Ph.D., R.Kin., P.L.Eng.
Dr. Desmoulin is the Principal of GTD Scientific Inc. GTD offers Biomechanical Consulting Services on behalf of clients throughout North America, as well as abroad. Focused practice areas include Injury Biomechanics, Incident Reconstruction and Physical Testing with a sub-specialty in the Science of Violence®. GTD has been retained in significant complex injury litigation cases involving municipal police department use of force, violent encounters and TASER International to name just a few examples. Furthermore, landmark testing and shooting reconstruction methodology developed by Dr. Desmoulin was recently upheld as reliable and admissible by the U.S. Federal District Court for the 9th District of California. This methodology has now been published in the International Journal of Forensic Engineering entitled “Application of biomechanical modeling to police shooting reconstruction”.
- Credit Hours: 1
- Class ID: 25-01-2-A1
- Area: 206
- Topic: Video Investigations
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