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In the past, police officers normally handcuffed arrested persons with their hands in front of them, but since the mid-1960s behind-the-back handcuffing has been the standard.
The vast majority of police academies in the United States today also teach their recruits to apply handcuffs so that the palms of the suspect's hands face outward after the handcuffs are locked; the Florida Police Department of Jacksonville, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are exceptions, as they favor palms together handcuffing. In addition, suspects are handcuffed with the keyholes facing up (away from the hands) to make it difficult to open them even with a key or improvised pick.
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