Who invented stop sticks

Any catters any ideas? Subject: RE: BS: when was the police stinger invented? From: GUEST, Date: 07 Jun 14 - PM "spike strip also known as traffic spikes, tire shredders, one-way traffic treadles, stingers, stop sticks, a stinger in police slang, and formally known as a tire deflation device" It was invented by Donald Kilgrow and design engineer, Mel Pedersen.

August Hit of the Month. About the author. October 9, Wauwatosa Police Department gets more than hits during one weekend of protests. NEWS November 04, September 27, The killing of George Floyd , in Minneapolis, cannot be wished away as an outlier. In each of the past five years, police in the United States have killed roughly a thousand people. During each of those same years, about a hundred police officers were killed in the line of duty.

One study suggests that, among American men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four, the number who were treated in emergency rooms as a result of injuries inflicted by police and security guards was almost as great as the number who, as pedestrians, were injured by motor vehicles.

Urban police forces are nearly always whiter than the communities they patrol. The victims of police brutality are disproportionately Black teen-age boys: children. To say that many good and admirable people are police officers, dedicated and brave public servants, which is, of course, true, is to fail to address both the nature and the scale of the crisis and the legacy of centuries of racial injustice.

The best people, with the best of intentions, doing their utmost, cannot fix this system from within. There are nearly seven hundred thousand police officers in the United States, about two for every thousand people, a rate that is lower than the European average.

The difference is guns. Police in Finland fired six bullets in all of ; in an encounter on a single day in the year , in Pasco, Washington, three policemen fired seventeen bullets when they shot and killed an unarmed thirty-five-year-old orchard worker from Mexico.

At the same time, they face the most heavily armed civilian population in the world: one in three Americans owns a gun, typically more than one. Gun violence undermines civilian life and debases everyone. A study found that, given the ravages of stress, white male police officers in Buffalo have a life expectancy twenty-two years shorter than that of the average American male. History haunts this debate like a bullet-riddled ghost.

This practice lasted for centuries. A version endures: George Zimmerman, when he shot and killed Trayvon Martin , in , was serving on his neighborhood watch. Rich men paid poor men to take their turns on the watch, which meant that most watchmen were either very elderly or very poor, and very exhausted from working all day. Boston established a watch in New York tried paying watchmen in The government of slavery was not a rule of law.

It was a rule of police. It shall not be lawfull for any negroe or other slave to carry or arme himselfe with any club, staffe, gunn, sword or any other weapon of defence or offence, nor to goe or depart from of his masters ground without a certificate from his master, mistris or overseer, and such permission not to be granted but upon perticuler and necessary occasions; and every negroe or slave soe offending not haveing a certificate as aforesaid shalbe sent to the next constable, who is hereby enjoyned and required to give the said negroe twenty lashes on his bare back well layd on, and soe sent home to his said master, mistris or overseer.

Stop and frisk, stop and whip, shoot to kill. Then there were the slave patrols. Armed Spanish bands called hermandades had hunted runaways in Cuba beginning in the fifteen-thirties, a practice that was adopted by the English in Barbados a century later.

South Carolina, founded by slaveowners from Barbados, authorized its first slave patrol in ; Virginia followed in , North Carolina in Slave patrols married the watch to the militia: serving on patrol was required of all able-bodied men often, the patrol was mustered from the militia , and patrollers used the hue and cry to call for anyone within hearing distance to join the chase.

In North America, the French city of New Orleans was distinctive in having la police: armed City Guards, who wore military-style uniforms and received wages, an urban slave patrol. The meaning of the word began to change. One end of the strap is attached to a handle having a grip portion and a housing portion with first and second sides.

Filed: April 18, Date of Patent: October 19, Vehicle tire deflation device. Abstract: A vehicle tire deflation device comprises a base, a plurality of hollow vehicle tire deflating quills removably secured to the base, and structure, including a curved portion and a flat portion, operably associated with the base, for positioning the device in a tire penetrating orientation so as to penetrate a tire of a vehicle as the tire rolls over the device, upon the device being positioned on a road surface adjacent the vehicle tire to be deflated in a non-tire penetrating orientation; such that the device rolls on the curved portion from the non tire penetrating orientation and comes to rest on the flat portion in the tire penetrating orientation.

The device may include a member, operably associated with the base, for removably securing the quills to the base, such that a rolling vehicle tire which embeds one of the quills therein will cause the embedded quill to sever the member and separate from the base, the separated quill thereby remaining in the tire as the tire rolls over the base.

Filed: October 11, Date of Patent: October 13, Assignee: Stop Stick, Ltd. Inventors: Louis M. Groen, Kenneth J. Greves, Richard B. Apparatus for deflating tires of moving vehicles. Abstract: A tire-puncturing apparatus is disclosed which can be placed on a road surface in front of a moving vehicle such as an automobile.

The apparatus has a collapsible outer cover which makes it safe to handle the apparatus before its use, yet being collapsible, does not impede the operation of the apparatus in puncturing the tires of the target moving vehicle. The apparatus also has a flexible interior cover made of rip-resistant material.

A special three-piece spike is used to first penetrate the tire's surface and then embed a hollow quill in the tread of the tire such that the tire will deflate at a controlled rate, rather than causing a blowout and subsequent loss of control of the vehicle.

The tire-puncturing apparatus is designed to be easily carried in the trunk of a police vehicle, and has an optional mating connector such that two or more of the tire-puncturing devices can be rigidly connected together to cover a larger portion of the road surface.

Filed: July 7, Date of Patent: September 26, Assignee: Stop Stick, Inc. Filed: January 28,