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The Triumph of a Tormented Poet, Arturo Herman Medrano
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The Triumph of a Tormented Poet, Arturo Herman Medrano
Jesus Christ, my grandma's puppy marked up my hands so bad today 😭
For Walk to a Park Day, an ER Injury Attorneys Las Vegas injury lawyer shares 3 ways that you can prevent pedestrian injuries and keep your
Las Vegas is blessed with world-class parks. While they’re normally safe, accidents can happen at any time. Since walkers in parks are relatively unprotected, pedestrian accidents can lead to life-altering injuries and complex recoveries. The Las Vegas pedestrian injury lawyers at ER Injury Attorneys are deeply familiar with these accidents and are committed to promoting safety in our community. With National Walk to a Park Day approaching, there is no better time to focus on awareness and prevention. Below are three valuable safety tips to help you and your family prevent pedestrian injuries. By understanding the risks and adopting proactive strategies, you can significantly reduce your chances of being involved in a collision.
1. Maximize Your Visibility to Prevent Pedestrian Injuries
A primary factor in many pedestrian accidents is the driver’s simple failure to see the person walking in time to stop. This is especially true when visibility is poor, such as at dusk or during monsoon season. To help combat this, always make yourself as visible as possible. Wear bright, reflective clothing or accessories when walking, and carry a small flashlight or use your phone’s light in dimly lit areas.
Make a practice of making eye contact with drivers at intersections before you step into the crosswalk, ensuring they have acknowledged your presence. This is crucial not just on busy arteries like Las Vegas Boulevard, but also in quieter residential areas in Pahrump where drivers may not be expecting pedestrians. Taking these steps to be seen is one of the most effective ways to prevent pedestrian injuries and ensure a safe journey, whether you’re heading to Desert Breeze Park or Red Rock Casino.
2. Eliminate Distractions for Everyone to Prevent Pedestrian Injuries
Distracted driving is one of the fastest-growing dangers affecting both drivers and pedestrians. A driver glancing at their phone for a few seconds can travel the length of a football field without looking at the road, which can have catastrophic consequences for anyone in their path. As a pedestrian, your own inattention can be just as hazardous. Looking at your phone while walking or wearing headphones that block ambient noise inhibits your ability to react to sudden dangers.
Always keep your head up and your ears open when crossing streets. Use designated crosswalks and obey all pedestrian signals, but never assume a driver will stop just because you have the right-of-way. This heightened state of awareness is essential for navigating complex intersections during National Walk to a Park Day, such as those near Sunset Park. If you or a loved one is injured by a distracted driver, our Las Vegas car accident lawyers can determine your best legal options.
3. Choose Safe Routes and Advocate for Your Community
Where and how you walk can dramatically influence your safety. Whenever possible, plan your route to use pathways with sidewalks, well-marked crosswalks, and good lighting. Avoid jaywalking across multi-lane roads, as this dramatically increases your risk of being struck by a vehicle whose driver cannot anticipate your crossing. In areas without sidewalks, always walk facing oncoming traffic. Furthermore, our community has a role to play in creating a safer environment for everyone. Supporting local initiatives for better-lit crosswalks, longer pedestrian countdown timers, and more sidewalks in neighborhoods can help prevent pedestrian injuries on a larger scale.
As we encourage families to participate in National Walk to a Park Day, it is a timely reminder to assess the safety of the routes to our local parks in communities like Henderson and Summerlin. Community advocacy, combined with personal responsibility, creates a powerful force for change. When infrastructure failures contribute to an accident, our premises liability attorneys have the experience to investigate whether a city or property owner shares liability for the resulting harm.
Contact a Las Vegas Pedestrian Injury Lawyer Near Me
With the weather cooling down across Clark County, it’s a fantastic time to go for a walk in our fantastic parks. However, safety must come first. Understanding the strategies above is vital for protecting yourself and your family. However, when accidents occur due to a driver’s negligence or property owner’s recklessness, knowing your rights is vital. The Las Vegas pedestrian accident lawyers at ER Injury Attorneys are here to deliver the legal representation and the results you deserve.
You can reach the Las Vegas injury lawyers at ER Injury Attorneys 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our team is available by phone at 702-878-7878 and online through LiveChat or encrypted contact form. Our renowned Southern Nevada injury lawyers have secured outstanding settlements for injury victims in Las Vegas, Henderson, Summerlin, Pahrump, Boulder City, Laughlin, and beyond. Reach out to us today and take your first step towards justice.
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Here is the bite I got breaking up a fight between two of our dogs
And here is the dummy that bit me. His name is Odie. He's a blockhead, but I still love him.
India's feral dogs soon benefitted from the vultures' decline, he says. Due to the fall in vulture populations, cow carcasses piled up and the number of feral dogs surged as they became the main scavengers. This had a knock-on effect on human health as it led to a rise in rabies deaths, says Prakash. "There has been an increase in rabies in India over the past 20 years," he says. According to a study by scientists at the University of Bath, the vulture decline made way for at least 5.5 million extra feral dogs in India, responsible for an additional 38.5 million bites between 1992 and 2006. Using a national survey which showed that 123 out 100,000 people who are bitten by dogs die of rabies, the scientists calculated that at least 47,395 people died as a result of feral dogs becoming the dominant scavengers in India. Taking account of the average cost of treating rabies patients and dealing with the additional deaths, Taylor and his colleagues concluded that the vulture decline caused by diclofenac indirectly cost India $34bn (£28bn) between 1993 and 2006, equivalent to 3.6% of the country's GDP in 2006. "It is important that vultures be restored, as they are a valuable resource for India and hold an important place in the ecosystem," says Taylor.
Isabelle Gerretsen, ‘Why we should value scavengers’, BBC
For #KernerBabygirl Project on TWITTER (im not gonna accept that ugly X shwit)
Do you guys know that Ron Kerner has two kitties🐈⬛🐈⬛❤️❤️
But can a doggo stay with two cats?
Well…
If they bite him
You’ll see he bite back
🐕🐈⬛🐈⬛❤️
Why K-9s in Indianapolis have mauled so many people—and why that may change.
Some people describe a police dog’s bite as a deep tear through their flesh. Others are haunted by the feeling of a Vise-Grip, the dog's jaws slowly but painfully tightening around their arms or legs until the muscles go numb.
These are not the nips or snaps of a pet dog in a backyard. A police dog, trained for weeks on how to bite harder and faster and with little reservation, can inflict debilitating injuries and lasting scars. The physical damage lingers as long as the memories of a dog’s snarling teeth, its guttural growls, its head ripping back and forth upon crashing into a fleeing target, all while a police officer stands nearby shouting commands and praise in German, Dutch or Czech.
Across the nation, police dogs bite thousands of people a year. And in no major city is someone more likely to be bitten than in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, home to one of the largest K-9 units in the country, has the highest rate of dog bites among police departments in the largest 20 U.S. cities.
Some cities saw one police dog bite over the last three years. In Indianapolis, it was once every five days.
Law enforcement officers from around the United States train with their police dogs on how to capture a suspect at Vohne Liche Kennels, in Indiana, on Sept. 23, 2020. Dogs are muzzled for the protection of the man acting as a decoy, who is not wearing typical bite gear for this training exercise.Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
Those are just some of the findings of a yearlong investigation by IndyStar and the Invisible Institute in Chicago, along with The Marshall Project, and AL.com.
The first-of-its-kind national analysis included a review of police dog bites from 2017-19. That review found that IMPD dogs bit 243 people over those three years. That’s more bites than New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; San Antonio; Dallas; Austin; San Francisco; Fort Worth; Columbus; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.
Combined.
Police K-9 Bites per 100,000 Residents
Among police departments in the 20 largest cities, some have much higher rates of police dog bites than others. Between 2017 and 2019, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police dogs had 243 bites, or about 28 bites per 100,000 residents. But city police in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco each recorded only one incident.
Source: Analysis of use of force data from police departments, population data from the Census Bureau.
Per-capita rates use the latest five-year census population estimates and are approximations. City police departments in Los Angeles, Houston and San Antonio may include serious non-bite injuries in their K-9 use of force records. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department data for bites in 2019 include numbers through January 23, 2020.
The investigation also revealed for the first time:
Nearly 60 percent of people who had been bitten in Indianapolis were suspected in only low-level and non-violent crimes or traffic infractions; bites that would appear to be out of policy in some other cities, such as Seattle and Washington, D.C.
At least 65 percent of those bitten were unarmed and did not act violently, facts that contradict IMPD’s stated reasons for using dogs so often.
More than half of the people who were bitten are Black, a disproportionately high number for a population that makes up just 28 percent of the city.
15 percent of people bitten were younger than 18. Three-fourths of the juveniles are Black.
Sometimes police dogs bite the wrong people entirely, such as police officers at a crime scene or innocent bystanders in a neighborhood.
Marshawn Wolley, a community leader who has worked alongside Indianapolis city and police leadership to reform IMPD’s policies, said he was shocked to learn about what’s happening with IMPD’s dogs.
"This is not meeting the standards of what we expect from a professional police department. They have missed the mark. Dramatically,” Wolley said. “There’s really no hiding from this. They set the standard for being the worst. This has to be addressed. This has to be addressed."
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett declined an interview request. He answered questions by email.
"These numbers are clear evidence that we must continue to have a dialogue with our community around what they expect not just of the K-9 unit," Hogsett said via email, “but of their police department as a whole."
The high number of bites in Indianapolis is driven in part by the convergence of two factors: a comparably loose set of IMPD policies that enables K-9 officers to release their dogs on people suspected of committing low-level offenses and, critics say, an old-school policing culture that encourages officers to do just that.
When IndyStar presented its findings to IMPD Chief Randal Taylor this month, he said he was concerned about the numbers.
"You know, I would hope we wouldn't have to bite that often," Taylor said. "If there's changes we need to make, I'm always for that."
Then, in an email Oct. 7, Taylor announced his department had drafted a new policy that, he says, will eventually place restrictions on the use of police dogs. For example: Officers would no longer deploy dogs on suspects in misdemeanor cases unless they believed that person is armed, though dogs would still be justified in all felony cases.
The policy change, if enacted, would have stripped out as many as 23 bites in misdemeanor cases over the last three years—an amount larger than the total number of bites found in some major cities.
That said, it's just 10 percent of the bites in Indianapolis. Even if they were removed from IMPD's total, Indianapolis would still remain the major city where someone is most likely to be bitten by a police dog.
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