Vehicle Incidents and Issues
The Vehicle Incidents and Issues topic deals with issues related to specialized patrols like motorcycle units as well as vehicular risks and challenges to LE, including vehicle crashes involving police and vehicular assaults against officers.
The Risk Homeostasis Theory can be applied to law enforcement in a variety of ways, including our willingness to ignore proven safety devices and proven safety measures
Police1 takes a look back at the biggest news stories of the year for the law enforcement community
Where there is blood, there are officer safety reminders
If it says it’s a meth lab, it might be a meth lab
Suspect bailed out of the car and his vehicle hit a house, whose occupants were not injured
Chief: Original incident ‘quite possibly one of the worst nights in the history of the department’
Patrolman was responding to a call to help another officer
State trooper Blake Coble, 48, was on patrol when the accident occurred
An officer says he shot at another officer who he thought was “the aggressor”
Birmingham police said the suspects’ SUV ran a red light
A 2010 Audi acted like a “high-speed guillotine”
When a taxi driver boxed him in, trooper knew erratic driver was heading his way
Deputies did find a squirrel crawling on the suspect, but they say he showed other signs of intoxication
18-year-old escaped handcuffs and “took off”
Bill would establish safety and performance regulations for autonomous vehicles
An often invisible enemy awaits to take the lives of America’s Finest
A group of bikers claims police used “excessive force” by creating a roadblock
The government has received complaints that part of the steering column can separate and cause loss of steering control
Officer Mark Taulbee was in pursuit of a vehicle at high speeds until his vehicle left the roadway and crashed
Sheriff’s office reportedly loaned military surplus goods to non-police organizations
Suspect’s vehicle hit the squad car and later sideswiped a vehicle, then ran into a cement truck
The driver of a stolen pickup was killed Sunday when the vehicle crashed during a police pursuit
Police said they discovered the car on the lawn of a nearby neighbor and the boy was uninjured
The deputy was transported to the hospital as a precaution
A pursuit, crash and K-9 deployment ended in man taken into custody
Deputy “could see that the driver was unconscious”
Police released footage to show the dangers of failing to obey Maryland’s move-over law