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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Traffic Stops"”.
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Perceptions, Knowledge and Experiences among Police Officers: Traffic Stops, Vehicle Searches and K-9 Involvement
… search and seizure norms and applications during traffic stops and vehicles searches, in particular police use of canine units following the landmark United States Supreme Court decision of <em>Rodriguez v. United States. </em>In particular, the study examines issues surrounding the length and …
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A National Analysis of Racial Profiling and Factors Affecting the Likelihood of Traffic Stops for African Americans
… factor in the likelihood of being involved in a traffic stop. In addition to race, other variables, such as gender and age, are explored as possible control variables. This is done by analyzing data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics' "Contact between Police and the Public" national …
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Driving While Black: Stories Through the Driver's Car Window—a Communicative Analysis
… of the African-American community, during traffic stops characterized as "Driving While Black." Thirty four interviews were conducted regarding this study. Derived from the interviews were transcribed narratives, which were examined through the use of narrative analysis and various …
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Heien v. North Carolina and Significant Interpretive Court Cases: An Empirical Examination of Police Officers’ Perceptions and Knowledge
… reasonable mistakes of law by police can support traffic stops. By doing so, it extends the permissible margin of error for stops by law enforcement officers. Due to the potential, far-reaching implications of the <em>Heien</em> decision, including implications for law enforcement and for the …
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emergency Lighting, Retroreflective Markings, and Paint Color on Policing and Law Enforcement Safety
… where the goal was to better understand how traffic behaved around traffic stops. Test vehicles were positioned in simulated traffic stops and patrol locations to determine how traffic behavior was affected by various configurations of police lighting and markings. Camera and radar systems …
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Predicting hybrid vehicle fuel economy and emissions with neural network models trained with real world data
… of on-road vehicle dynamics, like regular traffic stops, turning, and irregular accelerations and stops. Unlike the physics-based models, NNs have the advantage of lower computational costs, which could be utilized in near-real-time vehicle system control to determine optimal velocity …
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Essays on Race in Policing
… police trainings on the racial composition of traffic stops and racial disparities in related outcomes. The five trainings considered are (1) Cultural Diversity; (2) Arrest, Search & Seizure; (3) Racial Profiling; (4) Traffic; and (5) Deescalation. We exploit quasi-random variation in the …