DUI Checkpoint stopped

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Hitman_T

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I heard this briefly on the way to work on Armstrong and Getty but I can't find it anywhere.
Apparently in Berkley, CA the police had a checkpoint set up to check for DUI's. They had to stop. The reason, they were finding too many illegal aliens. All I know so far is the the ACLU got involved and the police stopped. Anyone in CA hear about this?
 
This is quite common in Indiana (except fewer Mexicans). They've even done random drug stops, where they run dogs through your car.
 
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2432116,00.html

Oakland DUI checks back on

Mayor orders return of DUI stops

By Heather MacDonald, STAFF WRITER

OAKLAND -- Mayor Jerry Brown on Monday ordered the on-again, off-again vehicle checkpoints back on track, calling the stoppage "a dumb idea."

Oakland police officers will restart the roadblocks next week, despite complaints from the Latino community and City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente (Glenview-Fruitvale). The last checkpoint happened more than a month ago.

"The so-called moratorium is hereby terminated," Brown said Monday. "The whole thing was a dumb idea."

According to law enforcement officials, the checkpoints are an effective way to get drunken and unlicensed drivers off Oakland's streets.

However, the roadblocks also swept up dozens of illegal immigrants without licenses or insurance, leaving many without transportation to get to work or the grocery store and causing hundreds of dollars in fines and fees.

"I wanted to make sure we were doing the checkpoints up in the hills and down in the flatlands," De La Fuente said. "I wanted to make sure it was equitable."

Brown said he ordered a review of the whole issue, and directed police Chief Richard L. Word to put together a full report.

"You don't make policy in the bowels of the police department," Brown said.

Word said the department stopped doing the checkpoints while new rules were developed in conjunction with the community and De La Fuente.

"I wouldn't call it a moratorium," Word said. "I would call it a rethinking."

Councilmember Larry Reid (Elmhurst-East Oakland) praised the decision to resume the checkpoints. Last week, Reid said the police department's failure to run the checkpoints was a threat to public safety.

"I want the law enforced across the board," Reid said. "If you have no license, no insurance, and you get stopped, your car will be towed."

Under the new guidelines, Oakland police will notify the public of the general area of the checkpoint, and set it up after the evening rush-hour commute. In addition, the roadblocks will be rotated throughout the city, Word said.

"To do more than that would defeat the purpose of the checkpoints," Word said. "But we also need to be sensitive to the community."

Word credited the checkpoints, funded with state grant money, for helping to reduce the number of fatal accidents in Oakland, down 22 percent this year from 2003. Five of the last six fatal accidents involved unlicensed drivers, he added.
 
ReCurve said:
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~2432116,00.html


However, the roadblocks also swept up dozens of illegal immigrants without licenses or insurance, leaving many without transportation to get to work or the grocery store and causing hundreds of dollars in fines and fees.
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good, get them off the road.

if they are illegal then they don't belong here.

if they are legal but won't buy insurance or get a license they shouldn't be driving.


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When we find illegal immigrants, why can't we just deport them?

As much as I don't like Jerry Brown, he made the right decision in restarting the DUI checkpoints. How in the world it's a threat to civil liberties, I don't understand. Drunk driving is not a right of any sort.
 
RNJBOND said:
When we find illegal immigrants, why can't we just deport them?

As much as I don't like Jerry Brown, he made the right decision in restarting the DUI checkpoints. How in the world it's a threat to civil liberties, I don't understand. Drunk driving is not a right of any sort.
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Fuck deporting them. We should load them into one of those Circus cannons, then fire them point blank into a concrete wall
 
Jerry Brown seemed a little pissed that the DUI checkpoints were stopped at all. That was the impression I got listening to him being interviewed yesterday.
 
RNJBOND said:
When we find illegal immigrants, why can't we just deport them?

As much as I don't like Jerry Brown, he made the right decision in restarting the DUI checkpoints. How in the world it's a threat to civil liberties, I don't understand. Drunk driving is not a right of any sort.
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maybe they need the head count to add into the figures for outsource work brought into the US to balance out those jobs lost to india :spineyes:



:roller:
 
Yankee said:
This is quite common in Indiana (except fewer Mexicans). They've even done random drug stops, where they run dogs through your car.
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Thats against the law Yankee. Unreasonable search and siezure.
 
Hitman_T said:
If this is so effective then why don't they do this like 2 miles from the border in the first place?
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The ACLU and Human Rights Organizations get up in arms about that kind of stuff.

I can't understand why we don't secure our borders with Mexico better, using the national guard or maybe the state militia or, hell, even ordering our border patrol to open fire, while increasing the amount of legal immigrants allowed to come into this country and easing restrictions on those.
 
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