Challenges of enforcing cellphone use while driving laws among police in the USA: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Research suggests that cellphone use while driving laws may be difficult for police to enforce in the USA, but this is unknown. A national survey of police officers was conducted to determine whether barriers to enforcing these laws exist, what aspects of laws make them easier to enforce and ways to discourage the behaviour among drivers.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Setting

USA.

Participants

Individuals >18 years of age employed as a law enforcement officer from all 50 states were recruited via convenience sampling through multiple modalities from November 2019 to April 2020. Officers (N=353) from 31 states participated.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Descriptive statistics and multi-level logistic regression analyses were run to as

SUBMITTER: Rudisill TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8246366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature