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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]
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.
William Potts (May 1883 – 1947) was a Detroit police officer who is credited with inventing the modern, three-lens traffic light in Detroit in 1920. (A gas-powered, two-lens, red/green traffic signal was invented in London in 1868 by John Peake Knight, though after a short test installation, traffic lights were not seen again in the U.K. until 1929.) [1]
Most states have hundreds of laws that police can use as a pretext for an unjustified traffic stop, which can then escalate into violence. Op-Ed: Why traffic stops can be deadly for people of ...
Jul. 20—Respect and composure can help ease the strain of a police stop, Muskogee Police Officers told an audience Tuesday night. "The first words spoken dictate how that encounter will turn out ...
Professor Jennifer Eberhardt discussed how a team of Stanford University researchers helped the Oakland Police Department dramatically reduce its traffic stop numbers on Yahoo Finance UK's 'Global ...
William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858 – December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
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]