I agree. I don't believe the "polls" on this matter in our city any more than any other poll. I live in Mobile. I got stopped Monday after picking my son up at school at 3pm. They had a 4-line heavily traveled road blocked off (Grelot Rd) with two cops on each side checking "your papers". My highschool age son was actually in a hurry to get home to start studying for the next day's final exams. We spent 45 minutes in this mess. For nothing.
It did give me a good opportunity to tell my son about the days in the Soviet Union when they did these things routinly and how we used to talk about the USSR and their "show me your papers" road blocks in high school. Before I said a thing he was going off on how this was just wrong in a free country. Yep. Even a kid in 9th grade can see that this sort of "show me your papers" road blocks by police is very disturbing in a free country.
There were cops all over the place making sure no one tried to turn around and get out of the nightmare traffic jam. You were just screwed if you decided to go down this normally fast moving 4-lane road in the middle of the city in the middle of the AFTERNOON.
This is being run so poorly too that it will quickly piss off the majority of the Mobile population. They could have at least had 4 cops checking "your papers". But no. They strangle 2 lanes each side down to 1 and then have 2 cops checking each side and cars backed up for a LONG wait. Grrrrrrr.
Well, the thing is, in order to reach our home on the bay, we have to take this little road called Dauphin Island Parkway. When my daughter got her license earlier this year, I gave her a long and detailed lecture on why as soon as she feels she's ready to drive on I-10, I want her getting on I-10 because I don't want her driving D.I.P north of the Interstate. My son well, I'm alright with him driving it as long as he stays on the road till it gets to Airport
But at any rate, I can understand why they'd be on Grelot, there are those apartment complexes and then as you go down University towards 90, especially near Cottage Hill, there's that one neighborhood across from the shopping center which well, I've told my daughter not to go in that neighborhood as well (actually, I've compiled a list of where I'm allowing her to drive to, cause I know better than her what areas she should be traversing)