September 2020

Emerging Issues in Traffic Safety

GUEST EDITORS Cari Jankowski and Breana McKenney

Traffic safety is part of every law enforcement agency’s mission to increase safety and protect community members, and addressing traffic issues can be a key element in crime prevention. As new technologies emerge in both vehicles and police departments, this universal area of policing continually evolves, bringing new challenges and new opportunities. 

Articles

• Innovations and Challenges in Urban Road Traffic

  By Eugênio Ricas, U.S. Attaché, Brazilian Federal Police, and João Ferreira Neto, Colonel Military Police, São Paulo, Brazil
  Major cities around the world face challenges that impact the quality of life for their inhabitants, including traffic congestion and road collisions. Thus, to improve the quality of life for urban d...

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• Speaking Out to Save Lives

  By Tim Burrows, National Law Enforcement Liaison Program Manager, Governors Highway Safety Association
  Law enforcement officers are the front lines of public safety within their communities. What sometimes gets lost in today’s busy world with many competing priorities is that traffic safety is an ess...

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• Cultivating Partnerships to Protect Children

  By Derek Prestridge, Captain, Training and Operations, Division Texas Department of Public Safety; Melissa Atwood, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Victim & Employee Support Services, Texas Department of Public Safety; Michael Bourke, PhD, Chief Psychologist, U.S. Marshals Service; and Lexi Quinney, Senior Manager, Texas Suspicious Activity Reporting Network
  Local and state uniformed officers have served on the front lines of U.S. law enforcement for more than a century. Whether enforcing prohibition laws in the 1920s or reducing drunk driving and interdi...

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• Virtual Reality and Crash Reconstruction

  By Richard S. Fambro, Colonel, Superintendent, Ohio State Highway Patrol
  For many years, law enforcement has been competing against the CSI effect. The general public watches myriad law enforcement dramas and expects the modern-day law enforcement officers who ser...

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