Decreasing Tension and ...
This is how an officer should explain the violation.
What is describing what the vehicle did?
Listening to drivers during a stop demonstrates this procedural justice component.
What is giving people a voice?
A traffic stop is?
What is the lawful and temporary detention of a pedestrian or driver of a vehicle for the purpose of traffic enforcement?
Immediately stopping the driver may endanger ________ or _________.
What is you and other motorists?
If a driver flees instead of stopping, the officer must follow this official departmental guidance.
What is the agency’s vehicle pursuit protocol?
This is the first thing an officer should do on a traffic stop.
What is greet the driver?
Drivers who speak another language present this type of communication barrier.
What is a language barrier?
These are some safe places to make a traffic stop.
What is a wide shoulder, available parking areas, and areas with an unobstructed view of oncoming traffic when entering the road?
Weather, school zones, construction, and neighborhood activity can all affect this movement and speed of vehicles and pedestrians.
What is traffic flow?
Officers activate lights and sometimes the siren to communicate this instruction to the driver.
What is directing the driver to pull over?
Listening respectfully during a stop helps drivers achieve this state, making cooperation more likely.
What is calming down and accepting the situation?
To encourage cooperation, officers should apply these four procedural justice strategies: respect, listening, fairness, and explanation.
What are procedural justice principles?
BOLOs, reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or assisting a motorist are some reasons for what?
What are justifications for initiating a traffic stop?
Merge areas, intersections, and acceleration lanes all increase danger for officers and drivers during a stop.
What are roadway locations that increase risk?
During a nighttime stop, these lights can provide extra visibility but must not blind oncoming traffic.
What are spotlights or high beams?
A driver may be stressed, confused, or afraid, requiring the officer to use this important interpersonal skill.
What is empathy?
When language differences arise, officers should request this through dispatch.
What is an interpreter?
This type of traffic stop is what all traffic stops begin as, because the level of danger is initially unknown.
What is an unknown‑risk traffic stop?
Officers should avoid stopping on blind curves, hill crests, ramps, or narrow shoulders for this reason.
What is preventing vehicle collisions and officer danger?
Some drivers may panic, stop suddenly, swerve, or ignore lights entirely, requiring this short action by the officer.
What is tapping the siren for one to two seconds?
Some drivers may react with ________, __________, ________ or ________ and _________________.
What is embarrassment, anger, fear or excuses, and tensions may rise
Treating people with respect serves this important purpose in building officer‑community trust.
What is fostering positive relationships?
Before deciding to stop a vehicle, officers must determine whether the stop is necessary, prudent, and safe under these conditions.
What is evaluating the need and safety of the stop?
Large vehicles may roll backward if stopped on this type of incline.
What is an upgrade?
Officers follow at a safe distance, let the driver change lanes, and may redirect them via PA if this initial location is unsafe.
What is adjusting the stop location?