Featuring the DUI Flyer video. Is a DUI checkpoint a violation of fourth amendment rights? Interpretations vary, but some claim it amounts to a warrantless search, and they feel their rights are being violated every time they submit to one. YouTuber HONORYOUROATH says there’s an additional concern. He worries that, even if a driver ... MORE
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Showing posts with label checkpoints. Show all posts
DUI Checkpoints - Are They Legal & What Are Your Rights?
by Marc Saggese. They go by a number of different names: DUI checkpoints, administrative roadblocks, mobile checkpoints, or as they are referred to by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, sobriety checkpoints. No matter the title, they all have the same effect: to allow the police to stop your vehicle for no articulable reason, ask ... MORE
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'Tis The Season For Government Roadblocks In California
Warrantless searches to help spend $93 million grant. What to do if stopped by a cop. 'Tis the season for DUI checkpoints and the California Highway Patrol is reminding you to think twice while you're out late with your friends this holiday season. Between December and January, more than 200 law enforcement agencies are armed ... MORE
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Woman Stops At DUI Checkpoint, Gets Raped At Gunpoint
Department announces cop to be fired. The Officer, Stephen Maiorino, was arrested on Oct. 20, 2014, and charged with allegedly raping the woman five days earlier. Maiorino, an eight-year veteran with the Boynton Beach Police Department, earned an “Officer of the Month” award in 2010, and was featured both on an episode of the ... MORE
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Another Federal Grant To Fund Warrantless Searches
Cops get seed money to troll for violators. Taxpayers fund their own harassment. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has received a federal “Reducing
Impaired Driving” grant, which will fund 150 sobriety checkpoints, 75
DUI task force operations, proactive DUI enforcement patrols through
September 30, 2015, and at least 100 safety ... MORE
Mississippi Can Demand Bloodletting At DUI Checkpoints
by Steve Wilson. Your public servants at work. Vampire movies, books and TV series are all of the rage these days. Guess the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol wanted to get in on the act. Over the long Labor Day weekend, the patrol ran a no-refusal DUI
checkpoint in Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi. In a
no-refusal checkpoint, a ... MORE
Loophole Lets Cops Can Search You Without Good Cause
by Simon Davis-Cohen. A legally murky tactic to scrutinize citizens. Checkpoints occupy a unique position in the American justice system. At these roadside stations, where police question drivers in search of the inebriated or “illegal,” anyone can be stopped and questioned, regardless of probable cause, violating the Fourth ... MORE
Jerry Davich: Do Sobriety Checks Trample On Our Rights?
“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” — Ben Franklin. Are police-conducted sobriety checkpoints a necessary law enforcement tool to remove drunken drivers from our roads? Or are they an unreasonable search of our property and an unconstitutional invasion of our rights and privacy? Hammond Police Department Lt. ... MORE
Laura College: How To Find DUI Checkpoints
Or, how to avoid warrantless searches. The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that DUI checkpoints, also called "sobriety roadblocks," are legal and minimally invasive. Of course, for a motorist who is late for a meeting or eager to get home, the inconvenience is subjective. Fortunately, there are ways to find out if there are DUI ... MORE
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2/3 Of US population Lives In “Constitution-free” Zone
by John Stokes. "Your papers, please." In 2003, the Seattle Times reported on random "spot checks" of cars and luggage that border patrol agents were performing on US citizens who were taking the ferry between Washington State and the San Juan islands. Because most of the passengers on these ferries had not actually crossed an ... MORE
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John Stossel: Patrolmen Without Borders
America is no longer a free country. If I drive across a U.S. border, I expect to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. But imagine driving to the grocery store, or Mom's house, well inside America, and being stopped by the Border Patrol. Many Americans don't have to imagine it — it's how they live. Even as the federal government fails to control ... MORE
Borderlands: What’s Happening to America?
by Sheldon Richman. The place where rights vanish into thin air. A man, an American citizen, sits in his car as a U.S. Border Patrol
agent insists that he roll down his window. He refuses. Agents use
battering rams to smash the windows. Still, the driver refuses to leave
his car, so he is hit with a Taser from two sides. He screams. It would be bad ... MORE
Steve Watson: Police State USA 2014 - Oregon Celebrates Independence Day… With ‘No Refusal’ Blood Checkpoints
And you thought police protect individual liberty? During Independence Day weekend, a time to celebrate US freedom and
unalienable rights, Americans in Oregon will be subjected to a “blitz”
of ‘no-refusal’ blood-draw checkpoints, as part of a disturbing trend
that now extends nationwide. Local news station KVAL reports that ... MORE
Cops To Perform Warrantless Searches On Beachgoers
Florida police troll for illegal drinks. With the help of new technology and federal grant money, police are preparing to warrantlessly search people’s refreshments as they visit the beaches of Florida. New passive alcohol detectors can simply be hovered above a person’s beverage to detect whether it contains alcohol. Similar ... MORE
VIDEO: Fleecing Motorists "For Their Own Good"
The next pretense for government roadblocks.
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