Recap of Kansas City drunk crackdowns:
"Two sobriety checkpoints conducted overnight in Kansas City resulted in 16 arrests for driving under the influence and two narcotics arrests.
"Kansas City Police and the Jackson County Sheriff’s office stopped 341 vehicles between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. at 10th and Charlotte and 13th and Pennsylvania."
More in a bit . . . .
If "stop and frisk" is wrong, then so must be "stop and quiz." The people who are stopped are peacefully going about their personal business. That checkpoints have been judged to be legal is a sad commentary on the quality of our judges.
ReplyDeleteWHY DON'T WE GET DRUNK, AND SCREW
ReplyDeleteBob, despite the fact that people founded this country in 1776 after revolting from brutal and excessive policing, so many in this country are glad to abandon their civil rights in the name of safety. These checkpoints never result in any meaningful impact, except to pay overtime for police to create middle east style checkpoints.
ReplyDeleteAbandoning civil rights is exactly what brainwashed people into accepting the Patriot Act, the NSA Schema, Search warrants issued without real probable cause and having their underwear inspected at the air ports. And why do numb nuts Americans accept this from their government? Because for some reason they think there is a difference between the terrorists taking away their rights and their own government doing the same thing.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same kind of thinking and unbridled submission that lead to the extermination of millions of jews, free kool aid in Johestown South Africa, the 2008 wrecking of the American economy by unregulated financial institutions and a screwball like Warren Jeffs highjacking a religion. What I find incredibly perplexing is how we send our veterans off to fight for out freedoms while the same government is conniving on how to take them away in the name of "safety". In the mean time we argue about "critical" politics like whether your neighbor owning a gun should be allowed in this country.
Lets spend millions in cities all across America so that we can catch a few drunks at the expense tens of thousands who are also restricted in these witch hunts, but let us not allocate ten cents for resources or funding to reduce violent crime rate in every major city in the United States. Lets hope no one ever becomes lucid again and recognizes all this bullshit for what it is.
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ReplyDeleteQ: How did the rookie cop explain her favorite piece of equipment was the nightstick?
A: It gave her good vibrations!!
Ask the first responders, hospital personnel, accident survivors and witnesses, but especially the family/friends of victims how valuable the checkpoints are. It's sad, but true the drunk drivers cost lives and liberties. Put the blame where it's due.
ReplyDeleteThe DUI penalties in fines, attorney fees, insurance rate hikes and lost work time should serve as the deterrent factor to intelligent drivers. Employers' sanctions for repeat alcohol offenses is proven in reducing the numbers of drivers who would otherwise drive impaired.
Sorry 3:36 I've been injured in a drunk driving accident. So I am one of the "victims" you speak of. And I think DUI checkpoints are far to intrusive and do not offer enough of a benefit to be justified.
ReplyDeleteSo I don't think the checkpoints are valuable. But thanks for trying to speak for me, you just happen to be wrong.
I think 3;36 ASSUMES the number of victims of drunk driving who support checkpoints outnumbers the number who oppose them. But its just an assumption. It is a very good tool to further his cause though.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is there is no acceptable polling of how "victims" feel. So he is just making shit up. I don't doubt that first responders (which include cops) support checkpoints, because they benefit.
Oh yes, lets stop 250 cars for four drunks while 175 of the drivers are on their cell phone or texting. Makes perfect sense to me.
ReplyDeleteYes, lowlifes f•cked up our freedoms in this country.
ReplyDeleteProducts tampered with (Tylenol, for one) brought us higher prices, excess packaging, and outsourced suppliers.
Terror operatives using tech enacted a surveillance climate for most of our world.
DRUNK DRIVERS ALONG WITH OTHER DISTRACTED DUNCES ARE A HUGE THREAT AND THE PRICE WE ALL PAY INCLUDES
DEATH !
INJURY !
JACKED UP RATES !
PACKED MUNICIPAL AND DISTRICT COURTROOMS !
AND SITTING AT THE CHECKPOINTS !!!!!!!