2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog | 20263
Criminal Justice Courses
CRJS 3400 Modern Traffic Enforcement: Equitable and Fair Policing Practices (2 credits)
This course takes a modern approach to proactive policing strategies with an emphasis on traffic law and criminal interdiction. Students will explore topics that racial profiling, preemptive stops, and implicit bias. Students will discuss police discretion in proactive patrol, the dangers of police pursuits, and alternative traffic enforcement methods that are less likely to result in a use of force incident. Students will also become familiar with recent cases involving traffic stops that have tarnished police legitimacy in Minnesota. This course includes an introduction to the elements of traffic offenses including definitions and terms. This course covers instruction in Minnesota automobile insurance law (Chapter 65B), motor vehicle registration law (Chapter 168), traffic law (Chapter 169, and driver¿s license law (Chapter 171). This course covers the interpretation of these laws and definitions by the Minnesota Courts through the analysis of commonly applied case law and will prepare the learner to apply the objectives during practical exercises when the learner attends a Minnesota POST-approved skills program.
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