What is the purpose of the Dyer Act?

What will be an ideal response?


In 1919 the need for federal control of motor vehicle theft was recognized, and Congress approved the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, commonly known as the Dyer Act. The Dyer Act made interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle a federal crime and allowed for federal help in prosecuting such cases. The act was amended in 1945 to include aircraft and is now called the Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicles Act. Since the Dyer Act was passed, more than 300,000 vehicles have been recovered and more than 100,000 criminals have been convicted in interstate car theft cases.

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Private (civil) law includes contracts, torts, property law and criminal code violations

a. True b. False

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. A set of beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by an organization’s members is also known as culture. 2. Most organizations can be considered self-sufficient. 3. Because community policing has been defined broadly by organizations such as COPS, roughly half of all eligible police departments have received grants from agencies such as these. 4. It is not possible for different law enforcement agencies to participate in equitable sharing while working together. 5. Citizens may become cynical of law enforcement if they are only adopting certain practices with no intent of effecting change in everyday practice.

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Unlike issues such as crime or poverty, ______ was seen as the “undeserving poor.”

a. refuge b. pauperism c. reform d. patriae

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The _____ exception is a formerly accepted tradition that a legally married husband could not be charged with raping his wife

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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