A vast MAJORITY of the people they pull over have had imbibed NO ALCOHOL. In fact less than 1% of the people stopped are getting a DUI. How do you figure probable cause when only a tiny portion would possibly be guilty?
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I would have to second that,
You're sick
Yes, that is what the guy in the video was unconvincingly trying to convey to the police.
Depends on whether or not your person has been issued a license to drive or not. You personally aren't harming anyone= you aren't breaking any laws. Your person might be bending the rules for which they will try to equate as you breaking the law.
You sound pretty silly saying that "Drunks on the road only hinder your rights when they harm you or your property". That is half of what this argument is about... drunks can, will, and have damaged property/people that are not located on the public roadways. It has nothing to do with "if they drunkenly drive past you nothing happens"... it has everything to do with if they drunkenly cause a collision with another person, or that person's property. To be in the mind frame that "if they haven't caused damage, then they are of no liability or threat" is absolute ignorance.
That's the point, they aren't random.
The stops they do for DUI are far from random.
where i live they give notice in the newspaper
This has got to be the most ignorant thing I've heard in a while.Checkpoints are never cool, Cops do not protect people, If someone is drunk driving they either will wreck into something or nothing will happen more than likely WITH or WITHOUT a checkpoint. Cops do not protect people or save lives, that only happens in the movies and on T.V.
If someone pulls a gun on you is a cop going to appear out of nowhere a karate chop his gun away....NO!
If you go to the police afterwards are they going to go after the bad guy? NO! that is too much work they aren't like Steven Seagal detectives with super powers or something, they will throw you under a hotlamp and interrogate you, try to get you to confess to a crime, much easier!
The same thing goes for drunk drivers. If an oncoming car swerves into your lane is a cop car going to come out of nowhere and intercept the car ramming him off the road? NO!
Are they going to magically clear the road of drunk people granting you safe passage at 2am? NO! Cops do not protect people..Myth Busted...Goodnight!
No, you missed the point. Police are not supposed to instantaneously save you, nor is any other human being on this planet. That is why they hold checkpoints, because it's a preventative form of "saving one's life", rather than your looney-tune ideology, that if law enforcement doesn't instantly save you, they are useless.
Check yourself into the psych ward... you've lost it.
When they arrest someone at a DUI checkpoint, yes they potentially have kept someone from crashing into him.
Cop arrests quiet teenager whom he thinks could commit Columbine 2.0 = potential life or lives saved.
