I got a ticket once at a DUI checkpoint for having an illegal dark tinted window.
I know someone else who got a ticket at one for having a burned out tail light.
They are checking for other things besides drunk driving at these checkpoints.
An attorney friend told me these checkpoints are legal, at least in California law, due to stopping everyone, that they are not just stopping people at random.
But then, are they trying to raise revenue, by ticketing people for other things besides DUI? Just wondering.
And as the article says, it’s really an inefficient use of police resources to set up checkpoints to catch drunk drivers. If police are better used being on routine patrol, let them do their patrols instead.
“They are checking for other things besides drunk driving at these checkpoints.”
It’s called “in plain view”...Anything that impeads their ability to clearly see anything in your vehicle, like dark tinted windows, a truck bed cover, trunk or other things that cover the identiy of objects in your vehicle only exasperates their situation and their ire, if you tell them what I posted in my previous post...
Do so at your own risk, be prepared for the ride, and always say and do things with the upmost firmness and courtesy for theirs and your safety...
Being of a certain demographic, I and my Dad had made a road trip out to California to go see my nephew graduate from MCRD in San Dog...On the way we encountered the known border patrol checkpoints along the way...
Of course you are stopped and aksed the question...”We’re all Americans in here right?”
My joking response to such an assinine question was, “No, we are Japanese!”
The reaction by most was very illuminating, most laughed and told us to move along very quickly...Some had a screwed up look on their face as if they had been out in the heat too long...But hey, thats not my fault...
Just remember, YOU may not have anything to hide, but you do have everything to protect...Put the burn on them for inconveiniencing you, those with you, and behind you at these “stops”...
I was stopped onetime in the middle of the day when I was on the way to an appointment. I know I wasn’t speeding so I wondered why he stopped me. He asked me if I know, why he stopped me, and I answered no. He said he stopped me because he could not read, my license plate numbers. I had one of those protective covers and over the years it has gotten faded so it was hard to see the letters and numbers unless you was really close. I told him I had it to protect the plate and he said this what most people have it. He didn’t give me a ticket but told me to take off, when I get home, I had told him that I was on the way to an appointment. Then when I got home I did take it off.
“But then, are they trying to raise revenue, by ticketing people for other things besides DUI? Just wondering.”
I don’t think you have to wonder, just look at the number of DUI/drug/booze related infractions these things catch as opposed to insurance/vehicle safety/registration/license infractions. I know the local ones they have around here hardly ever catch DUI type impaired drivers but really pile all the other types of finable infractions.
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In Indiana, they are bad about tinted window violations and they are allowed to bust out of state drivers too. On the non-resident drivers, they can require you to fix the tint, mostly by the small towns. State police usually just write you up and they are done with it. I also leave a vehicle there with the out of state plates and have concerns if driven, family member gets busted and hear about it and get a bunch of s—t for the tint. The law was lienient at one time, just the front windows but now the back windows can’t be tinted much anymore.
> I got a ticket once at a DUI checkpoint for having an illegal dark tinted window.