Showing posts with label checkpoints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label checkpoints. Show all posts

DWI Checkpoints Work, But Are They Constitutional?

by Erin Schultz.   Last week, we asked a few local bar owners how DWI task force checkpoints affected their business over the summer, and reader reaction to the piece ranged from vehement support of the checkpoints to questioning if they are Constitutional or not. Here are a few comments generated from the issue. Feel free to chime   ... MORE

Robert Taylor: Your TSA Pat Down Will Only Get Worse

TSA refuses to hold hearing on "naked body scanners."   The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is once again in the news for refusing to obey a federal appeals court order from last year mandating that the agency hold public hearings over its "naked body scanners." They'll get around to it in 2013, says TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers.   ... MORE

Christopher Elliott: Who Are The Real TSA Dissidents?

Liberty-lovers are losing their country.   See the footage of Julio Rausseo, an activist and journalist, at Chicago's Union Station the day after the Fourth of July. Why is he so upset? Because there are TSA agents at the train station, and they're about to set up a screening area. This audio recording was taken a week later, after Rausseo posted the first   ... MORE

Aaron Dykes: TSA: Filming Checkpoints Is "Terrorism"

Make sure to watch the video.    Evidently, TSA isn’t looking for press coverage in its new roll out of checkpoints at train stations. Citizen journalist Julio Rausseo, a roaming correspondent for WeAreChange.org, was labeled a “terrorist” and threatened with arrest for filming a TSA checkpoint at the Union train station in Chicago. An Amtrack police official   ... MORE

VIDEO: In Transition To A Police State, America 2012


Public servants or the agents of an increasingly tyrannical state?    This video displays a troubling dynamic in America. It chronicles a driver detained at three different police roadblock during a commute westbound on I-8 in southern California, a highway that NEVER intersects the international border.  Probable cause is not a prerequisite for arbitrary interventions or checkpoint searches.

Stephen Dark: Are DUI Checkpoints Constitutional?

About road safety or trawling nets for cops? Tomorrow night, July 6, at 4100 S. State, Unified Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol will be pulling over cars from 9:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. in search of people driving under the influence. But are such checkpoints constitutional? "The big reason for the checkpoint is to protect everybody's safety," ... MORE

Sarah Shurtleff: Do Checkpoints Make Us Safer?

"Your papers, please."    The day after the checkpoint on U.S. 36, my daughter was driving alone through Idaho and was stopped by a state trooper who claimed he thought her tinted windows might not conform to Idaho's requirements. Is this a "lawful traffic contact for some identified violation?" Doesn't sound like it to me. Sounds like fishing. The   ... MORE

Jim Holt: Results Lead To Questions On DUI Checkpoints

3,279 motorists detained, 3 drunk drivers arrested. Checkpoints set up to intercept drunken drivers are still worthwhile — despite only three impaired driving arrests made out of more than 3,600 motorists stopped during three recent checkpoints, local sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Monthly since March, deputies with the Santa Clarita    ... MORE

Police Roadblocks Will Celebrate Mexican Holiday

Cinco de Mayo is prime time for DUI checkpoints.    For the first time in five years, Cinco de Mayo falls on a weekend. That's why many law enforcement agencies are setting up DUI checkpoints beginning Friday night, or even earlier. But stationary checkpoints aren't the only tool police will be using to make sure drivers are sober this weekend. But stationary ... MORE

Eric Peters: Here Comes Santa's Last Run

Right down Nanny State Lane.  Santa's been running late because of all the speed traps and sobriety checks out there. Not to mention the endless meetings with his legal team to make sure the factory's in compliance with the latest workplace safety rules -- and the elves happy with the terms of their latest contract. Thank God the sleigh doesn't have to have a catalytic ... MORE