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• Strong Coffee: Using Databases to Investigate Drunken Driving

  Branan explores the value of pursuing a story on drunk driving, including what databases are helpful in such an investigation, and how to verify and analyze the information.

  Tags: drunk driving; drunken driving; databases; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; FARS (Fatality Analysis Reporting Systems); FBI Age, Race, Sex table, Justice data;

  By Brad Branan

  2007

• Analyzing Speeding Tickets and Racial Profiling Data

  This tipsheet offers several suggestions for good stories about speeding tickets, as well as some insight on how a general traffic stop story can turn into a piece about racial profiling. Hacker offers tips for doing the analysis and lists over a dozen of helpful websites like the Justice Research and Statistics Association.

  Tags: traffic; speeding; discrimination; tickets; school zones

  By Holly Wisenhunt Stephen

  2005

• Analyzing Speeding Tickets

  This tipsheet explains some of the difficulties of analyzing speeding tickets, and then shows how the resulting story is often worth the effort. Overberg offers some examples of successful stories and includes specific details about each analysis. The tipsheet includes a recent story that Overberg did for Uplink, a NICAR publication, with more advice on the topic.

  Tags: traffic; speeding; police; citations; cars

  By Paul Overberg

  2005

• Latest Broadcast Stories Using CAR

  This tipsheet consists of a list of tips for using CAR in your broadcast story and a transcript of a drunk driving series by WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.

  Tags: None

  By Kathleen Johnston

  1999