I am from Vegas (Born and raised). If I remember correctly, blood tests are NOT optional there. I don’t drink, so have never thought much about the particulars (I moved from Vegas a few years back, about the time I legally could drink, but again, I don’t), but if I remember correctly from drivers ed, you cannot refuse to be tested, or you forfeit your license. I could be wrong, but I think that if you are “suspected” of drunk driving, then they can take you to have blood drawn (or a urine sample) on the spot. If anyone knows definitively, be sure to chime in, but that’s what I recall.
LVMPD revels in their abuse of authority. I have many friends who joined the police department, and all of them but one left within a few years, because they didn’t like the dirty cop nonsense. The corruption is nearly limitless, as attested to at every turn by the scum. One of the reasons I left Vegas is because I got sick of the police corruption. I got sick of the random stops and answering where I was going and what I was doing. I never had any legal problems with LVMPD (other than their unconstitutional, and fruitless trolling), and I would never want to. They love to abuse their authority at every turn. Oh the stories I could tell, from first and second hand.
They need a civilian review board in Las Vegas. Now.
I remember the West Point graduate who was shot to death by Metro after leaving the Costco. The man was legally carrying. The security tapes conveniently disappeared, and the cops who killed an innocent man were promoted.
I did not know that testing was mandatory in Vegas. The nice lady just said “And we are going to need to draw some blood.” I just remember reading that you should always refuse this. So I just said “No”. These 2 really big guys immediately extracted me from my chair, on to the floor, they sat on me, and it was needle in my arm in about 10 seconds. You could tell they had this down to a science.
I just needed taco shells. Jeesh.
I left Vegas because of this. And I dearly miss the cute Gypsy girls I met there.
Would you expect a “sin city” to care a lot about classic morality?
Why dont they just have groups of cops drive around and randomly stop people and draw blood and analyze it real time, on the stop. You could test hundreds of people everyday.
“Sir, just put your arm out the window, this will only take a minute.”
Rather than have checkpoints for quick chats. Just draw every-bodies blood. Somebody could invent a blood pressure checking type cuff that would do the prick, analyze the blood and display a red or green light within seconds.
Maybe I should go for a patent on this.