Archive for Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sarah Longwell: DUI roadblocks are avoided
June 18, 2009
To the editor:
The sobriety checkpoint planned for Craig this weekend will serve to funnel limited state and federal grant money away from measures that have proven to be most effective in combating drunk driving (State Patrol: DUI checkpoint coming Saturday, Craig Daily Press, June 16).
Because they are highly visible by design and publicized in advance, roadblocks are all too easily avoided by the chronic alcohol abusers who comprise the core of today's drunk driving problem.
Conversely, the number of DUI arrests made by roving patrol programs is nearly 10 times the average number of DUIs made by checkpoint programs, according to testimony by a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official.
By focusing scarce law enforcement resources on roadblocks, the Colorado State Patrol will strip Colorado's roadways of their most valuable tool for catching drunk drivers. Craig residents and taxpayers would benefit from employing the most effective tactics to catch drunk drivers: roving police patrols.
Sarah Longwell, Managing Director
American Beverage Institute
1090 Vermont Avenue NW, No. 800
Washington, DC 20005
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18 June 2009
at 2:21 p.m.
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DWILIEdotNET (Anonymous) says…
Not to mention this little tidbit of essential law and American History.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
And I don't care what the Supreme Court says, so nobody has to bother reminding me, they only decided that based on perjured statements anyway.
Small laws are pieced together into huge Tyrannies.
Thanks for all your good works Sarah