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Police departments have found creative ways to enforce traffic laws. Ten years ago, police in Boulder, Colorado, increased compliance with speed laws by stationing a plainclothes officer with a radar ...
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Every summer, every holiday season, and during every national mobilization, you find it's time to intensify your agency's attention to traffic safety issues. But the key to an effective, results-orien...
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Not since the oil embargo of several decades ago has U.S. law enforcement faced such a serious challenge from rising petroleum costs. The price of gasoline at the retail pumps has risen above $2 per g...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has sponsored several studies in the last 30 years that attempt to identify causes of roadway collisions. Research consistently reports that ...
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Although the traffic fatality rate has dropped dramatically since the mid-1960s, traffic crashes account for 95 percent of all transportation-related deaths and 99 percent of transportation-related in...
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One of the most important and visible components of a comprehensive traffic safety program is the officer actively engaged in traffic enforcement duties. For most citizens, the officer in action on ou...
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The Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 expands the clinical context of medication-assisted opioid addiction treatment by allowing qualified physicians to dispense or prescribe specifically approved ...
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Two converging national forces promise to revolutionize the way highway incidents will be managed in many local jurisdictions in the coming years. The first of these forces is the nationwide adoption ...
