Posted on 02/14/2014 1:45:25 PM PST by moonshinner_09
A heavily populated area in Brownsville got some heavy police presence Wednesday.
Brownsville police officers set up a checkpoint on Honeydale to check license and registrations and to watch out for speeders.
Some people were not happy about it.
But Eliza Panciera welcomed the surprise initiative to deter unsafe driving in her neighborhood.
"I think they should come out here every day."
Eliza has seen firsthand the dangers of speeding here.
"One time a car came fast around the corner and ended flipping over there."
Some vehicles have even ended up in a canal that runs right next to Eliza's house.
She was only one of a few that supported the afternoon busts.
Many others were outraged that they had to pull over, some ended up calling for someone to pick them up and a handful were taken away in the back of a police
(Excerpt) Read more at valleycentral.com ...
How is looking at people’s licenses and registrations “checking for speeders?” I thought radar did that. What am I missing?
Trust me Texas does allow suspicionless checkpoints. There are all sorts of checkpoints 100’s of miles from the border on all the main highways.
I question the effectiveness of sobriety checkpoints anyway. Back in my drinking days they would have never caught me because they didn’t set them up on deserted dirt roads.
Yeah, border checkpoints belong on the border. In Michigan you can only cross the border 4 places by car so its easy to do them at the bridges and tunnel.
“PAPERS PLEASE”?
Back in my drinking days they would have never caught me because they didn’t set them up on deserted dirt roads.
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Also, if they had been setting up DUI check points etc between 5-7 PM they would have caught a lot more and BIGGER fish...
Only us professional ‘drunks’ were vulnerable late at night, (every night cause the ‘good drunks’ missed NO work) the other drunks were on the highway in the early evenings..
A ‘good’ DUI driver always had ALL his lights working, drove the speed limit, used turn signals and had more than one way to head home....
I am not talking about the checkpoints directly at the border, I am talking about checkpoints 100’s of miles east of the border on all the main highways right before you get to the nearest large cities east of the border.
There was the time I came upon a police standoff at an old farmhouse. Fortunately they just wanted me to keep on moving.
Those and “no refusal weekends” where they stop everyone and if you refuse a breathalyser, you get your blood drawn!
In my county, there is an atty running for JP who really really wants to sign “blood warrants” because her family suffered from a drunk driver last year. She seems to be MADD on overdrive... I think we should keep the non-atty incumbent who is doing a great job.
Drunk driving is against the law - not everyone is doing it and suspicionless checkpoints violate civil rights of those who aren’t drunk. JMHO
“Am I under arrest?” “Am I being detained?” “May I depart?”
The only responses needed...
Those are federal checkpoints though, authorized under a ridiculous ruling that allows them to put up checkpoints for “border security” up to that distance from the border.
The US Supreme court ruled that they were OK but by that time the people here in Michigan had beaten up on the legislature so much that they decided to abide by the state supreme court ruling.
I went through one of those checkpoints in western Texas in October 1981. The men were all Texas Rangers. I showed them my Navy orders and they inspected the two rather large seabags in the back of my ‘72 240Z.
we were amazed when we vacationed in that area....we were on our way back to attend a wedding in Colorado.....somewhere, many miles north and east of wherever we had even come close to the border, there was a border patrol blockage (permanent) on a multilane highway....we went through the goofey procedure while tractor/trailers proceeded through, at a reduced speed of course, in an adjacent lane.....I thought of mentioning to the agent that I had taken all the drugs out of my car at the last rest stop and placed them on the deck of the transport carrier next to me, but I refrained from doing so...also, I looked across a field and could SEE a frontage road running parallel to the highway..........now I'm not a drug smuggler, but even I could have figured out that the frontage road was a possibly better place to transport my stash that the highway with a border stop....I did, however, point out to the humourless agent that I thought that this entire fiasco was a gigantic waste of time (mine) and money (also mine)
That’s good. One problem, though, is that I think the Feds can still put up their own “border” checkpoints in many states, even if the states have outlawed suspicionless checkpoints. So passing laws against this at the state level can’t check the problem entirely.
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