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  2. History of traffic lights - Wikipedia

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    These early signals, manufactured by the Acme Traffic Signal Co., paired "Stop" and "Go" semaphore arms with small red and green lights. Bells played the role of today's amber lights, ringing when the flags changed—a process that took five seconds. By 1923 the city had installed 31 Acme traffic control devices. [16]

  3. Anti-Flirt Club - Wikipedia

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    The Anti-Flirt Club was an American club active in Washington, D.C., during the early 1920s. [1] The purpose of the club was to protect young women and girls who received unwelcome attention from men in automobiles and on street corners. [2] [3] The Anti-Flirt Club launched an "Anti-Flirt" week, which began on March 4, 1923. [4]

  4. Traffic stop - Wikipedia

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    Nationally, 43% of traffic stops are for speeding, 24% for broken equipment, and 9% for suspected criminal activity. [19] 730 police killings from 2017 to 2022 started with traffic stops. [20] 7% of killings by police started with a traffic stop. Two thirds of killings by police started with no crime or a nonviolent crime.

  5. Report: Few felony arrests come from traffic stops in ... - AOL

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    "Only 13 out of 11,626 traffic stops resulted in felony arrests," Hensley said. "That is 0.1% of total traffic stops. Only three out of 11,626 traffic stops resulted in stolen vehicles recovered.

  6. New report details the extent of racial profiling during ...

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    In 2022, 12.5% of traffic stops in California involved drivers that officers perceived to be Black, but Black people only represent about 5.4% of the state’s population, the report stated.

  7. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents .

  8. 2 Missouri officers accused of stealing nudes from dozens of ...

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    Two former Missouri officers were charged in separate, unconnected cases in federal court this week over allegations that they illegally searched women's phones during traffic stops to obtain ...

  9. William Phelps Eno - Wikipedia

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    Traffic Regulations first drafted by Eno, as issued by New York City on February 8, 1909. Though automobiles were rare until Eno was an older man, horse-drawn carriages were already causing significant traffic problems in urban areas like Eno's home town of New York City. In 1867, at the age of 9, he and his mother were caught in a traffic jam.