{"id":3929,"date":"2014-12-18T10:14:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:06:02","slug":"police-need-learn-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/education\/police-need-learn-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"What Police Need to Learn about Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3942 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/policeonmills-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"policeonmills\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/policeonmills-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/policeonmills-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/policeonmills-140x94.jpg 140w, https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/policeonmills.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In part 3 of&nbsp;his&nbsp;comprehensive overview of cycling law enforcement, Kirby Beck&nbsp;explains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What police need to learn<\/li>\n<li>How to get heard by your local police department<\/li>\n<li>Why changes in police departments need to come from the top<\/li>\n<li>Plus: why&nbsp;you need the AAA on your side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You need to start reporting things,&#8221;<\/strong> Kirby urges cyclists. <strong>&#8220;They&#8217;re not going to know it&#8217;s a problem if they don&#8217;t hear from you and hear from your friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I know the cops will go, &#8216;Why did you tell them that? That&#8217;s all we need is more calls.&#8217; Too bad! Too bad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See, I&#8217;m not going to be happy until we don&#8217;t have to have special programs to do bike enforcement because it&#8217;s part of what cops do every day, we don&#8217;t have to spend a lot of money on bike lanes and other facilities because we&#8217;ve got roads, and people can use those roads. They&#8217;re there for everybody, it&#8217;s a public right-of-way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cyclists and Law Enforcement, Part III\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/104576698?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beck is a retired police officer and a trainer with the International Police Mountain Bike Association. In <a href=\"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/enforcement\/cyclists-law-enforcement-history-overview\/\">Part 1 of this series<\/a>, he took us through the fascinating history of cops on bikes, and gave an overview of the current state of enforcement of bicycle law \u2013 or lack thereof. <a href=\"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/enforcement\/police-issued-cycling-citation-now\/\">In Part 2,<\/a>&nbsp;Beck explained how to deal with police citations and how to effectively report incidents to 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part 3 of his overview of cycling law enforcement, Kirby Beck explains what police need to learn and how to get heard by your local police department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[32,64,58,63,56,61,60,59,19,62,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}