Dangers of Police Pursuits January 2006 Abstract Debate rages over whether high-speed pursuits are justified. And consensus is growing among local and national law enforcement for the need for stricter controls to dictate when‚ where and why police engage in such potentially deadly car chases. The written pursuit policies of 47 state law enforcement agencies and the nation’s 25 largest cities were subjected to comparative analysis. Qualitative analysis of the policies focused on factors justifying
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Police Liability and High Speed Pursuits Rodgers There is a line in the Bible that states “sometimes the wicked flee‚ when no man pursueth‚" (Proverbs 28:1‚ King James Version)‚ law enforcement officers know only too well that there are numerous instances in which motorists flee‚ despite the fact that they are being pursued‚ and are lawfully being commanded to pull over and stop‚ for purposes of investigation‚ citation for traffic offenses‚ or for arrest of a more serious crime. Police pursuits
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One of the most important duties of police officers is to prevent crime from happening. In the light of this objective‚ part of the regular duties of police officers is to go on patrol to improve police visibility. As they patrol the community‚ police officers have the responsibility to stop motor vehicles in case the driver commits a violation of motor vehicle law or in case the driver or his companions engage in suspicious activities. Ordinarily‚ motor vehicle stops are supposed to last a few
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Speed Economy High Speed Rail will be equivalent to throwing government subsidies into a black hole – crushes the US economy Utt‚ Ph. D. & Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation‚ February 11‚ 2011 Advocates for more spending on passenger rail‚ including HSR‚ often point to Europe and Japan as role models and aspirational goals for American policy. This Euro-envy manifests itself in the promotional
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make on a daily basis in regards to police pursuits. This also includes the potential safety risks to the public‚ officers and suspects that are involved or not involved in a police pursuit. This paper will also highlight the statistics of police pursuits as well as the efforts and processes that are involved in making police pursuit policies. Police pursuits are often sudden decisions that have the potential to affect many other people’s lives. Police pursuits are a hard subject to fully understand
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com/locate/tranpol High-speed rail in Taiwan: New experience and issues for future development Yung-Hsiang Cheng n National Cheng Kung University‚ Department of Transportation and Communication Management Science‚ No. 1‚ University Road‚ Tainan City 701‚ Taiwan a r t i c l e in fo Available online 4 November 2009 Keywords: High speed rail Build-operate-transfer Taiwan Integration Transportation impact abstract This study aims to identify some possible issues and challenges for Taiwan’s High Speed Rail
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High School Sports Should Not Be Banned Do you think that high school should ban sports? Well do you? I didn’t think so either. Some people say that we should ban sports from our school. I wouldn’t want to ban sports from high school at all. I wouldn’t because if we did then some students wouldn’t be able to find something that would make them want to come to school or get good grades. I’d say that sports make kids want to come to school and excel at it. I believe that kids that participate in
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1101 Mrs. Myers Cell Phone should be banned in high school When I was in high school‚ I saw many students in school using cell phones. The students were supposed to come to school to learn‚ but instead they were texting. I was one of those students. I did not pay attention in class and my grades began to drop. Finally my parents took my cell phone away‚ and my grades started to go up; from personal experience‚ I know cell phones should be banned in high school. Cell phones distraction in
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references‚ alcohol abuse‚ and violence. Although the novel contains mature subject matter‚ The Catcher in the Rye should be included in all high school curriculums because it is a classic coming of age story that students can learn from and connect to their own lives. Specifically‚ the majority of high school students reading The Catcher in the Rye can relate to the prevailing pressure to meet high family and class expectations. The main character‚
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Introduction The UK government set up High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd in January 2009 to consider the case for new high speed rail line between London and Scotland capable of carrying passenger trains at speeds up to 250 miles per hour. The broad plan for the network to Manchester and Leeds including the section between London and the West Midlands is roughly the shape of a letter Y. The “Service specification assumptions for the Y network” shows a total of 18 trains per hour (tph). The government and its
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