Strengthening The Citizen and Law Enforcement Partnership at The Traffic Stop: Professionalism is a Two-Way Street |
Part I: Practices for Traffic Law Enforcement Officers During
Typical Stops Part II: Practices for Drivers Why Officers ConductTraffic Stops Are Dangerous What Can You Do?
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Part II: Practices for Drivers (NOTE: There are many opportunities for law enforcement to communicate with the community they serve about why and how traffic stops are conducted. Here are some practices agencies can communicate to the public in printed public information materials, presentations to community groups and schools, and interviews with the media, and that may be placed in visitor centers and rest areas on highways.) (SAMPLE PUBLICATION) So you speed sometimes and gingerly run an occasional stop sign. That’s not such a big deal–or is it? How would you feel if a stop-sign runner speeds through a school zone where your child is waiting for a school bus?
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