{"id":193917800,"date":"2011-02-23T10:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193917800"},"modified":"2011-02-23T10:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T10:03:20","slug":"howard-county-police-department-best-practice-on-aggressive-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193917800","title":{"rendered":"Howard County Police Department Best Practice on Aggressive Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space reports on one of the presenters at the Bike Maryland Symposium Howard County Chief of Police William McMahon. I will highlight something I would like to see other jurisdictions adopt:<\/p>\n<p>While there is a high standard of evidence required for the police to be able to write a ticket or charge someone with a crime if a police officer did not witness the incident, the Howard County Police Department encourages people to report acts of aggressive driving involving cars, pedestrians, or bicyclists.<\/p>\n<p>They will send a letter to the owner of the vehicle stating that (1) a report was made; (2) concerning the vehicle and a particular illegal act; (3) the consequences from acting in this fashion; and (4) an &quot;apology&quot; if this report was made in error.<\/p>\n<p>They send out over 300 letters each month.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/howard-county-police-department-best.html\">https:\/\/urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/howard-county-police-department-best.html<\/a>oldId.20110223100320735<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space reports on one of the presenters at the Bike Maryland Symposium Howard County Chief of Police William McMahon. I will highlight something I would like to see other jurisdictions adopt: While there is a high standard of evidence required for the police to be able to write a ticket &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=193917800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Howard County Police Department Best Practice on Aggressive Driving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193917800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193917800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193917800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193917800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193917800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193917800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193917800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}