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Race And Reasonable Suspicion, Ric Simmons

Florida Law Review

The current political moment requires society to rethink the ways that race impacts policing. Many of the solutions will be political in nature, but legal reform is necessary as well. Law enforcement officers have a long history of considering a suspect’s race when conducting criminal investigations. The civil rights movement and the progressive criminal justice decisions of the Warren Court mitigated the explicit use of race as a factor, but there is ample evidence that many modern police officers still openly or implicitly use race to guide their investigative decisions.

This Article examines and critiques how courts have historically analyzed …

Beyond Bail, Jenny E. Carroll

Florida Law Review

From the proliferation of community bail funds to the implementation of new risk assessment tools to the limitation and even eradication of monetary bail, reform movements have altered the landscape of pretrial detention. Yet, reform movements have paid little attention to the emerging reality of a post-monetary-bail world. With monetary bail an unavailable or disfavored option, courts have come to rely increasingly on nonmonetary conditions of release. These nonmonetary conditions can be problematic for many of the same reasons that monetary bail is problematic and can inject additional bias into the pretrial system.

In theory, nonmonetary conditions offer increased opportunities …

Policing As Public Good: Reflecting On The Term "To Protect And Serve" As Dialogues Of Abolition, Tracey Meares, Gwen Prowse

Florida Law Review

This Essay is based on a lecture that was to be delivered in person in March 2020 but was cancelled as a result of the initial ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. That a discussion of policing in the United States was cancelled because of what may well turn out to be the most significant public health crisis of this decade, if not this century, is important as these two subjects are intimately related.

In the pages below, this Essay highlights how ordinary people discuss a reconceptualization of policing in ways that respond to the current moment. The data comprise a …

The Private Delegation Doctrine, Paul J. Larkin Jr.

Florida Law Review

Since its earliest days, Congress has delegated lawmaking authority to Executive Branch officials. Over time, a body of Supreme Court caselaw, known as the Delegation Doctrine, has grown up (ostensibly) to regulate Congress’s ability to offload legislative authority to administrative agencies. Occasionally, however, Congress, like state legislatures and municipal councils, bypasses executive officials and directly delegates lawmaking power to private parties. The Supreme Court has addressed those delegations in only a few cases and struck down three of them, the last one in 1936 in Carter v. Carter Coal Co. In those cases, the Court did not rely on …

Recruitment Machines, Community Power And Political Return On Investment (Proi): Economic Development Policy In The Age Of Amazon, Eric G. Griego Montoya

Political Science ETDs

ABSTRACT

A fundamental policy choice in economic development among local policy makers is the appropriate mix of “outside” strategies that use incentives to attract companies, and “inside” strategies that invest in smaller and local businesses. Using a mixed-methods research design, including national and state surveys along with qualitative analysis of interviews conducted with policy elites, I examine the role of ideology, elites, community, competition, social capital (trust and influence), and electoral politics in these policy decisions. I use new descriptive theoretical frameworks called “recruitment machines” and “Political Return on Investment (PROI)” to describe how and why local elected officials support …

A Quantitative Exploration Of Strategies To Reduce Fatigue Among Nurses, Karen R. Cochran

Dissertations

The work environment of nurses places them at high risk of fatigue. The literature suggests a high prevalence of fatigue exists among nurses. Fatigue leads to reduced cognitive and physical abilities increasing the risk for personal injury and patient care errors. Nurse fatigue should be mitigated in an effort to improve safety and quality in healthcare organizations. The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' self- perceptions of fatigue and to examine nurses' willingness to engage in specific fatigue countermeasures within the workplace. Data were collected through an anonymous Qualtrics survey. A sample of 279 nurses completed the survey. …

Redeeming The Lost Generation: The Scope Of The First Step Act And Compassionate Release In Revisiting Pre-Booker Sentencing, Kevin Milton

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 56, No. 13, November 15, 2021, Grand Valley State University

Volume 56, August 2, 2021 - April 18, 2022

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Automatic Alignment Of Mixed-Resolution 3d Point Cloud Data, Thomas Pascarella Watson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Different types of 3D sensors, such as LiDAR and RGB-D cameras, capture data with different resolution, range, and noise characteristics. It is often desired to merge these different types of data together into a coherent scene, but automatic alignment algorithms generally assume that the characteristics of each fragment are all similar. Our goal is to evaluate the performance of these algorithms on data with different characteristics to enable the integration of data from multiple types of sensors. We use the Redwood dataset, which has high-resolution scans of several different environments captured using a stationary LiDAR scanner. We first develop a …

Evaluation Of Covid-19 On Amt Part 147 Schools Related To Knowledge-Based Testing Scores For Amg, Ama, & Amp Mechanic Certification Examinations, Christine T. Kelley, Robert Gallagher

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The FAA mandates under CFR 14, Part 65 Subpart D § 65.75 Knowledge requirements, that an applicant for a mechanics certificate must possess. The knowledge-based test, more commonly referred to as the “written” examinations and covers materials specific to either an airframe certificate (AMA) or a powerplant certificate (AMP) with the general (AMG) component being common to each. The prescribed level of testing for a Part 147 school is specifically outlined under § 147.38a Quality of instruction and measured by the results of the KBT examinations for all students tested and measured against a national norm. During the period of …

An Optimized Machine Learning And Big Data Approach To Crime Detection, Ashokkumar Palanivinayagam, Siva Shankar Gopal, Sweta Bhattacharya, Noble Anumbe, Ebuka Ibeke, Cresantus Biamba

Faculty Publications

Crime detection is one of the most important research applications in machine learning. Identifying and reducing crime rates is crucial to developing a healthy society. Big Data techniques are applied to collect and analyse data: determine the required features and prime attributes that cause the emergence of crime hotspots. The traditional crime detection and machine learning-based algorithms lack the ability to generate key prime attributes from the crime dataset, hence most often fail to predict crime patterns successfully. This paper is aimed at extracting the prime attributes such as time zones, crime probability, and crime hotspots and performing vulnerability analysis …

The Bison, November 12, 2021

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Driver Distraction On Vehicle Speed Control, Emily Parcell, Shivani Patel, Cameron Severin, Yoona Cho, Alex Chaparro

Publications

Performing a secondary task while driving impairs various performance measures, including speed control. Distraction is associated with reductions in driving speed; however, this is often based on global measures of performance, such as course completion time or mean speed. This study investigated how a secondary task affected granular speed variation. Participants (N=16, ages 18-43) performed a secondary task of mentally subtracting pairs of numbers while negotiating a simulated road course. Various driving performance measures were obtained but only results for longitudinal velocity are reported. The results reveal that drivers exhibited significant increases and decreases (>2+/- SD) in vehicle speed …

Student Academic Policies Committee Of The Academic Senate 2021-11-12, University Of Dayton. Student Academic Policies Committee

All Committee Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Student Academic Policies Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Walking The Line: Understanding The History And Development Of The Nhtsa Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, Jon D. Gurney

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the early 1980’s within the United States, state legislatures criminalized the practice of driving under the influence of alcohol due to the efforts of moral entrepreneurs such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving that served to vilify the drunk-driver. During the political culture of the early 1980’s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sought to develop field sobriety tests that would assist law enforcement in the detection and arrest of drunk drivers.

This study provided a brief historical account of the development of the NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test battery, which consisted of the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test, the Walk …

The Weekly Challenger, November 11, 2021, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 11, 2021, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Managing Covid-19: Legal And Institutional Issues, Yon-Shik Lee

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

November 11, 2021, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2020-

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Vista: November 11, 2021, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Effects On Libraries Goes Beyond Books: Lead City University In Perspective, Adedoyin Johnson, Oluwabunmi Bakare Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Information is a resource that is naturally needed in all aspects of human endeavors and the library, as an institution responsible for the acquisition, organization and dissemination of information is highly sought by information users. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the closure or restriction of access to libraries all over the world, of which the Lead City University Library was not an exception. This article contends that the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has a wide ranging impact on the library and its users that goes beyond lack of access to books and other …

College Faculty In The News: Nov. 10, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Lindenwood Digest, November 10, 2021, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Police Funding, Stephen Rushin, Roger Michalski

Florida Law Review

A number of civil rights activists have called for the defunding or abolition of American police departments. These activists claim that the United States overinvests in police, leaving fewer scarce resources to support other government services. Activists also claim that overinvestment in policing contributes to higher rates of police misconduct and unnecessary criminalization, particularly in communities of color.

This Article considers these calls for the defunding of police. It ultimately cautions against widespread defunding of police and offers an alternative proposal. Part I brings together multiple national databases on local government expenditures to evaluate empirically how states and municipalities fund …

Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform During Cycles Of Political Retrenchment, Carol S. Steiker

Florida Law Review

For the past decade or so, criminal justice reform in the United States has been having a moment. After decades of massive increases in incarceration rates around the country, advocates for serious rethinking of harsh criminal justice policies have begun to find more receptive audiences at the local, state, and federal levels. However, the 2016 presidential election brought into office a new administration that often embraces the perspective of earlier eras on crime and punishment. How might the momentum of criminal justice reform be maintained in this new political climate? Looking back at some of the drivers of change over …

The Indiana Statesman, November 9, 2021, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Title IX offers domestic violence resources on campus; After Astroworld, Travis Scott offers refunds; Hulman family gives $2 million donation; President’s Dinner honors distinguished alumni and philanthropists

Full Issue, Number 54, Fall 2021

Intersections

No abstract provided.

Covid-19 Newsletter (Vol. 94), Center For Disaster Medicine, New York Medical College

COVID-19 Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Use Of Strategies For The Relief Of Symptoms Of Insomnia, Marianne Homsey

Dissertations

Insomnia is a condition that leads to health problems and raises health care costs. The purposes of this Web-based, quantitative, descriptive, correlational study were to identify frequency of use and success of strategies to alleviate sleep problems, to determine if there is a relationship among strategies chosen, and to examine any patterns that emerged based on these preferences.

Ms 108 Guide To Daniel L. Creson, Md, Phd Papers (1960-2005), Daniel L. Creson (1935-2015)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Daniel L. Creson, MD, PhD papers contains information about Dr. Creson's professional career primarily from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. See more at MS 108.

Volume 119, Number 3 - Tuesday, November 9th, 2021, Saint Mary's College Of Califiornia

The Collegian

No abstract provided.