... arrived at Betty's house, picked her up, and promptly proceeded to Lake Herman Road, a well known "lover's lane" of the local teenagers. After a while, a car, possibly a blue Valiant, pulled up next to David's 1961 brown and beige four-door station wagon, and a man got out. "Framed only in silhouette, the man appeared ... to be stocky in build and slightly heavy, with an eerie sense about him" (Tina 3). The man requested that the teens get out of their car, but they refused. Upon hearing David and Betty's refusal, the man pulled out a gun, and fired a round into the right rear window, s...

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... David arrived at Betty's house, picked her up, and promptly proceeded to Lake Herman Road, a well known "lover's lane" of the local teenagers. After a while, a car, possibly a blue Valiant, pulled up next to David's 1961 brown and beige four-door station wagon, and a man got out. "Framed only in silhouette, the man appeared ... to be stocky in build and slightly heavy, with an eerie sense about him" (Tina 3). The man requested that the teens get out of their car, but they refused. Upon hearing David and Betty's refusal, the man pulled out a gun, and fired a round into the right rear wind...

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... women nearby for assistance. Others reported of a young man with a cast on either his arm or leg asking young woman for help with his car. Finally, in 1974 the first victims of Ted Bundy were found. Washington's Lake Sammamish State Park, found the remains of two of the missing girls ... Carol thought that the man must have been a mall security guard because he seemed so in control of the situation. When they arrived at the car, she checked it an informed the man everything was there. The man, who identified himself as Office Roseland, was not satisfied and wanted to ... somewhat consc...

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... breach of authority. Then again, I didn't expect an officer to make incriminating comments about his fellow cops to their detriment. Finally in the police car with Corinne and Davis, I notice no cage, polyglass plate, or screen separating us. Fittingly, the sergeant's vehicle used for ride-alongs is devoid ... transport any suspects (police equivalent=prisoners), since we'll be a backup unit. (I still don't know if that's the reason the shotgun in the car was stuck in its brace.) Soon after leaving the G.P.D. parking structure, we stop at a traffic light, only to witness a Chevy truck spe...

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... a dishonorably discharge. Miranda drifted around the south for a few months, spending time in jail in Texas for vagrancy and was arrested in Nashville for driving a stolen car. Because he had taken the stolen vehicle across state lines, Miranda was sentenced to a year and a day in the federal prison system, serving time in Chillicothe, Ohio ... always did, Patty turned east on Marlette and walked toward her home on Citrus Way where she lived with her mother, sister and brother in law. Suddenly a car pulled out of a driveway in front of her passing so close to her that she had to jump bac...

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... just intervened in a dangerous situation. An example of this is a cop stopping a vehicle because, of a burnt out head light and walking up to the car without using much discretion based on a bumper sticker supporting a local youth soccer team. When the officer approached the vehicle he was shot and it turns out ... to escape police detainment. Police face deadly risks everyday and it is important not to make quick judgments based on a person's car or their appearance. An officer should always follow procedures to their best ability. Police constantly are plagued with the thought that thi...

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... early morning of November 24th, 1982, Jimmy Jerome Arnold had stolen some fishing rods and reels sticking out of the window of a parked car. He then heard a police car, and then ran. Arnold attempted to hide from the pursuing officers by climbing a tree that was in a small yard off of an ... Robinette v. Ronnie Barnes 854 F.2d 909, (1988) In Dorothy Robinette v. Ronnie Barnes 854 F.2d 909, (1988), Daniel Briggs was in the process of robbing a car dealership, when the K-9 unit was called in for a structure search in which the team has been trained, and reevaluated for, when they arrived ...

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... uncle and a cousin out of their vehicle and into the rain, for the purpose of searching the car for drugs. Wilkens recalls seeing a young white boy, about six years old, in a passing car with his face pressed against the window and he couldn't help but to think what image will forever be ... see his ID. When the policeman examined the ID he could not believe that Rep. Ford was a member of Congress and that he was driving such a nice car. At which point Rep. Ford told him, "If I was treated this way, I can't imagine how folks who don't have the access to the things I ... the Advancement ...

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... manufactured by Ford in October of 1971. The Grays had trouble with the car from the outset. During the first few months of ownership, they had to return the car to the dealer for repairs a number of times. Their car problems included excessive gas and oil consumption, down shifting of the automatic transmission, ... carburetor float had become so saturated with gasoline that it suddenly sank, opening the float chamber and causing the engine to flood and stall. A car traveling immediately behind the Pinto was able to swerve and pass it but the driver of a 1962 Ford Galaxie was unable to...

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... knife for a powerful .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. On July 29, 1976, he used this revolver to shoot Donna Lauria and Jody Valenti in a parked car. Lauria was killed, and Valenti was seriously wounded. This event officially marked the beginning of the "Son of Sam" killing spree(Panic 1). Berkowitz struck ... again on October 23, 1976. Carl Denaro and Rosemary Keenan were just leaving a party when a man appeared outside the passenger side of the car. He drew a gun and fired five times, wounding Carl in the head. Rosemary rushed Carl to the hospital where doctors replaced the shattered part...

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... . To ensure citizens' know what rights they have, they must be educated. First, all people should know their constitutional rights. For example, if you are stopped in you car, do you have to let an officer search your car? What should you do? First, you should show your driver's license and registration upon request. If the officer wants to look in you ... most cases, such as if he pulled you over simply for not wearing your seat-belt, there is no reason for him or her to search your car and you do not have to oblige. However, the officer can claim he or she had probable cause if, for ex...

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... sailboat. It seems that he also coaxed the girls in by wearing a fake arm cast and sling. Once the girls had been lured back to his car they saw that he didn't have a sailboat after all. At this point "Ted" would tell them that he had left the boat at his house ... her, but he was unsuccessful. Next, he tried to hit her with a crowbar, but again he was unsuccessful. She somehow managed to escape from the car and hail down a passing motorist. She got away. Debra Kent was nowhere to be found. Debra was a 17 year old girl with long brown hair ... Suddenly he stopped at a gas station. Natura...

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... a police officer quickly sees the worst of the worst and the other side of stereotyping. They are first on scene when a child dies, a woman is raped, a senseless homicide, a teenager's suicide, a car ablaze with victims trapped, drug overdoses, and domestic violence calls. Police officers often wish they could have the 'end all solution' to the many problems faced throughout society that ... victims, criminals, and fellow officers caused by various weapons. Mass destruction caused by bombs, fires, riots, etc. Death and destruction caused by natural disasters. Viewing the aftermath ...

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... a man. The limo driver went to his trunk, we didn't know if the guy was getting a gun or what (Tupac Shakur (1992))." Tupac and his friends jumped out of the car and allegedly attacked the driver where charges where later dropped. The next charge to come was in 1993 when Tupac was engaged in a fight with directors Albert and Allen Hughes ... Shakur and "Suge" Knight left the Mike Tyson and Bruce Sheldon fight. While driving down the Las Vegas strip, a white Cadillac with a California license plate pulled up along-side their car. The assailants shot Tupac 4 times in the chest. He would d...

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... of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. Certain police are taking advantage of their position of authority. Increasingly the police are seen by people of color as ... ...

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... equipment, such as body armor. Other equipment for protection can be reflective equipment. Reflective equipment helps other drivers see officers when they are investigating automobile accidents. Law officers that investigate car accidents at night have an increased risk of another vehicle hitting them. Officers standing on the side of the road assisting or ticketing a driver need equipment that warns other drivers ... ...

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... can mean finding more occasions for bribe taking, which is one reason that in many places beat patrolling was scaled back since the 1960s in favor of more isolated squad car teams. The real test of a department is not so much whether its officers are tempted by money but whether there is an institutional culture that discourages them from succumbing. This ... ...

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... ever as well as dangerous. During the second week of June, stories of how a sailor was slashed and disfigured by a pachuco gang, and how a policeman had been ran down by a car load of zoot-suiters, were leading in the papers. A young Mexican was stabbed at a party by drunken Marines; a trainload of sailors were stoned by pachucos as their train approached Long ... ...

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... sniper fire or promote return fire from the crowd. Shooting to wound rioters is also a very risky task because of the risk that a bullet may ricochet off of a sign or a car and injure an innocent civilian or another officer. Colonel Rex Applegate's 1976 publication "Kill or Get Killed" discusses various methods for subduing mobs. Most of the accepted methods involve either ... ...

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... . In State v. Purcell, the Supreme Court of Utah was trying a burglary case on appeal from a lower court. In that case, the court questioned the admissibility of a photograph of a trunk of a car involved in the case. The Utah Supreme Court addressed the issue of proper authentication of a photograph. Pursuant to Rule 901 of the Utah Rules of Evidence, evidence must be properly ... ...

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... the scene. One of the officers said that Gammage ran three red lights before stopping after the officer flashed his lights at him. The officer told Gammage out of the car and saw him grab something was reportedly a weapon, but was his cell phone. The officer knocked the phone out of Gammage's hand and they scuffled. The other officers beat Gammage ... ...

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... many cases, the data examined in crime analysis is better considered as dyads, rather than as single point features. The criminals home may have a bearing on where a crime is committed. A car may be stolen at one site and recovered at another. If these connections are not considered some patterns of behaviour may become obscured (Nulph, Burka and Mudd, 1997). The second ... ...

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