'Booze It & Lose It' Yields 1,137 DWI Arrests in Second Week, 6,469 seat belt violations

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[DoughtyOne]

highway checkpoint - shades of 1930s Germany

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[Petronski]

"If you've done nothing wrong, Citizen, you have nothing to fear. Your papers please."

[Dr Warmoose]

Just because I am in one of those moods...

Could some vocal zealot of the Libertine/Libertarian Party tell the rest of us if he/she is for this policy of "Prior Restraint" regarding drunk driving. For isn't the driver tooling around town drunk doing so in the privacy of his own automobile? Also, coining a pet phrase of the Libertine/Libertarian Party, (original: "I can swing my fists as much as I like, but my rights to do so ends at your nose.") "I can drive around drunk as much as I like, but my rights to do so ends at your car's bumper."

[Constitution Day]

NC ping!
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[billbears]

In addition to cracking down on impaired drivers, officers last week issued 3,920 seat belt and 619 child passenger safety violations

I see Giddy's plan for instant funds is in full effect. Thanks Giddy!!

[microgood]

Sounds like North Carolina is a Constitution free zone.

[lelio]

officers last week issued 3,920 seat belt and 619 child passenger safety violations.
Click it or Ticket violations are $86 here in WA state and are a big money maker. How much are they in NC?

[DoughtyOne]

"Yes sir..."

I don't like have to prove my innocense at road blocks.

[dead]

If somebody is exhibiting the behaviors associated with drunken driving, I personally have no problem with an officer pulling him over and finding out why.

I do have a problem with perfectly well functioning drivers being pulled over, searched (in violation of their constitutional rights), and ticket for nanny-state seatbelt violations.

Kiss a jackboot today.

[willieroe]

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer's new, unmarked patrol car was struck minutes after a July 4 drunken driving checkpoint with one of the state's breath-alcohol testing mobile units, better known as BATMobiles, had ended. A female driver hit his vehicle and fled the scene but was soon apprehended. Her breath-alcohol content (BAC) measured .12. She was arrested for DWI, hit and run, and no operator's license. No one was injured.

Since there are no stopped female drunk drivers in the commercial running in my area, perhaps she didn't believe the campaign was meant for females....

[KEVLAR]

That would include Illinois as well. Ours is called
"Drive Hammered, Get nailed!"
Started about the same time as the new setabelt law allowing a stop for a seatbelt absent any other offense.

[chance33_98]

Could some vocal zealot of the Libertine/Libertarian Party tell the rest of us if he/she is for this policy of "Prior Restraint" regarding drunk driving.

They want to remove the rights of others over their own business and property, if we want to do the same to them they get bent out of shape. They want to set up check points, it's their roads, bar owner wants to allow smoking, it's their bar. When the government learns to give us what they themselves expect maybe then people will have less of a problem with it.

[jaz.357]

I Love the Outter Banks.... http://www.countdowntokittyhawk.org/

[Renegade]

Zoo Jersey passed the same law . I still can't understand how they can pass a law that MANDATES you wear a seatbelt.. Pennsylvania just repealed the motorcycle helmet law for 21 + in age .

[Positive]

"highway checkpoint - shades of 1930s Germany"

In California they are called "Sobriety Checkpoints." The policy is that there is a big lighted sign that says there is one ahead and there must be at least two opportunities to turn off the street before reaching the checkpoint. The catch here is that there or motorcycle cops stationed at these "turn off streets" and if you aren't wearing your seatbelt or you have a signal/brake light out or anything like that, they stop you for that, then they ask for your liscense and registration and proof of insurance - then they ask you if you've been drinking...

In the article above, they posted the dates and places of the checkpoints comming up and gave a phone number to check to make sure. I'd say if I were going to go drinking and driving I would deserve it if I got into one of those.

[Indrid Cold]

"Statewide, law enforcement officers arrested a total of 1,137 motorists for driving while impaired (DWI) during the second week of the summer "Booze It & Lose It" campaign. That includes 115 impaired drivers under the legal drinking age of 21. Since the campaign began on June 26, a total of 1,907 DWI arrests have been made."

Uh huh. And how many do they normally arrest?

[DoughtyOne]

Here are two thoughts on your comments.

This isn't about defending drunks who wish to drive. Catch one weaving down the road and put them in jail. Don't subject the populace to a road block.

You see, in my opinion the idea of a roadblock is about as foreign to a free society as it gets. And warning me in advance or making me try to avoid something that doesn't support the idea of a free people isn't my idea of an examle of what our government policies should be.

If there is a terrorist threat or a regional emergency, I might approve of a roadblock, but not as a matter of routine policy.

[verity]

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