Checkpoints are fine if it involves nothing but driving-related issues--license, inspection stickers, insurance, sobriety, even improper child seats are OK. Just not any crime that an officer may suspect them of. Especially if he is just trolling for perps with no suspicion at all. It's like having to prove you are innocent. It assumes guilt. I have an issue with random stops for that reason as well. A pull-over should only be for traffic violations, improper tag or sticker, or safety issues like missing taillights.
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what? checkpoints are random unless you have done something specifically to give them probable cause. if you so happen to have a busted taillight or expired license, that was known after the fact. not probable cause but random. it sounds like this a weird, convoluted way of reasoning stops are ok unless they are looking for drugs?
Checkpoints check every car that comes through, it isn't a random check. Anytime you have a violation you can be pulled over, in a checkpoint or not. They aren't all trying to bust you. I was stopped at an insurance checkpoint once and produced insurance. I also had an expired inspection sticker, but he just said to get it done, that they were only writing up lack of insurance tickets. Read it again. I said traffic checkpoints stops are legal if they are specifically related to traffic or safety. They are illegal to check for random offenses. Technically. Do officers sometimes abuse this? Of course, officers abuse everything.
It simply amazes me how many people so willingly give up their Constitutionally protected rights to the police because they think of themselves as pro law or pro law enforcement. I don't don't drink and drunk drivers should be punished harshly but I'm not going to set aside my rights or worse, the rights of others in the off chance a drunk driver might be caught up in a large net consisting of 99.% innocent citizens.
the oklahoma country sheriff's office and the ohp routinely hang out looking for reasons to pull people over on i-35 north of where i-35 and i-44 merge back together. tail lights out, failing to signal, speeding, whatever. why? because i-44 and i-35 coming back together and then 35 north being a major route for running drugs north. every so often you hear of a major bust of someone running drugs north because once they got pulled over in that area, and with any reason to believe they were runners, the dogs were on the scene.
