Ride-Along

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Ride-Along

In marketing, a small sample of a product that is sent in the mail along with a periodical. Ride-alongs are intended to entice recipients to want more of the product and therefore to buy it.

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McKee, the police lieutenant, said it's a busy time of year for ride-alongs with officers on patrol, mainly with department recruits and citizen police academy members.

Woman gets her wish with police ride-along

Although price and profit took a backseat to tastings and ride-alongs, it was still a prevalent theme throughout the survey responses, as was whether a wine fit into the distributors' portfolios.

Wine distributors reveal how they choose

2] As a result, the question of whether media ride-alongs violate the Fourth Amendment and, if so, to what extent are individual law enforcement officers liable, has remained unanswered.

Media Ride-Alongs

But somewhere in between these two kinds of ride-alongs - on the public street or inside the home - there are gray areas in the wake of the Supreme Court's rulings.

Another gray area

But the fact that the Court's holding on this issue (that the rule wasn't clear until the Court's decision) provoked a vigorous dissent - that of Justice John Paul Stevens who essentially argued that any idiot should have known of the ban on ride-alongs - will likely chill many journalists who have long defended and promoted ride-alongs.

Rulings mean death knell for media raid ride-alongs

It merely found that, as of April 1992, the law had not clearly declared ride-alongs unconstitutional.

Will the ticket to ride be torn up?

Further, agencies might incur potential liability costs from accidents during ride-alongs, equipment demonstrations, and firing range segments of the class, despite liability waivers signed by applicants.

The Citizen Police Academy

Media ride-alongs always served the mutual interests of media and police; law enforcement agencies liked the publicity, and the media got action-packed footage or photos.

Ruling will keep media outside during raids

I have written features and hard news stories about the ride-alongs, whether it was with a cop on the beat, a narcotics officer, or someone running a sting on hookers and johns," says Taylor.