Drug checkpoints

Pete Spri wrote: On i read it.  It's fact that more Mvas are happening with people with pot in their system.  That is fact.

You realize that THC can remain in the body and test positive long after any impairment has vanished - up to 30 days. The fact you quote is irrelevant.

You folks should get back to the original post of police using illegal, or shady practices to stop and search people who might be carrying, or not..

Dylan B. wrote:

I posted this on page 4:

Anyhow, Here’s a blog post by Jeff Welty at the UNC School of Government on so-called “ruse checkpoints.”

https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/ruse-checkpoints/
And here’s a paper he published on traffic checkpoints generally:

http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/pdfs/aojb1004.pdf

Oh cool.  They obeyed the law by not really setting up a check point, but in return set up a sting.  Basically they can make up any thing they want to justify pulling you over, be it you didn’t come to a complete stop, your window is tinted too dark, etc, etc..

I don’t think people should drive high, transport over state lines, etc. I do believe we need checks and balances.  This is the same type of crap that minority’s face daily in their home town.  
I’m not hating on the law.  They can be great people, and perform miracles given what they take on during a shift on the job, but we can not have overstepping of things.  Remember some police forces are crooked.  I even recall a town who fired the entire police force.  

Here's a great example of police abuse of civil rights under the war on drugs.

​http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-latino-drug-stops-grapevine-20181004-htmlstory.html​​​

Just to be clear, I couldn’t tell whose patrol cars were at the scene performing the checks, CO or UT. I guess under the contex they were performed it doesn’t really matter.
I’m a naturalized American, and one of the draws to become one was this notion of land of the free. Seeing these signs on the highway struck me as discriminating ( be it your license plate, color of skin, your religion) and made me think how people that are targeted by police disproportionately feel most of their time while driving. Some of us have the luxury to interact with the police in a normal manner just because of our skin color, others not so much.

Merlin wrote:

if you get pulled over when driving normally and they try to search your car get a defense attorney whether you have marijuana on you or not 

climbing friend,

the laughing it is out loud!

no it is not quite easy no to prove that you were make drive normally and convince judge court of this, when officer pig mcdonut they testifies you were not. the "officer of the law" will be presumed to be tattling onto the truth and verifiend facts!!!!!!! and you are presumed dirty, lying hippy from Colorado, to be punished severely for even trying to escape your mandated U.S. corporate-olgarchical bondage, let alone you dare questioning the sanctity of utah magic underpants and angel moroni.

also you do not want spend great sum money for "defense attorney" that may or may not do a good job helping on you

Aleks Zebastian wrote:

climbing friend,

the laughing it is out loud!

no it is not quite easy no to prove that you were make drive normally and convince judge court of this, when officer pig mcdonut they testifies you were not. the "officer of the law" will be presumed to be tattling onto the truth and verifiend facts!!!!!!! and you are presumed dirty, lying hippy from Colorado, to be punished severely for even trying to escape your mandated U.S. corporate-olgarchical bondage, let alone you dare questioning the sanctity of utah magic underpants and angel moroni.

also you do not want spend great sum money for "defense attorney" that may or may not do a good job helping on you

Bravo. I LOLed

Just wanted to stop in and say....”Congratulations to pot for winning the war on drugs” .... carry on

Tim Lutz wrote:

Don’t think bro can run faster than 1200 feet per second so no, hell NO!

Bill Kirby wrote:

Don’t think bro can run faster than 1200 feet per second so no, hell NO!

Nor can he outrun a radio transmission.

Tim Lutz wrote:

In Seattle and we had a State Patrolman (fat) chase down a hit and run suspect (obese) on foot. The trooper kept updating location out of breath every once in a while, but it seemed weird the locations weren't that far from the original call. We arrived to see the guy constantly out-shuffling/waddling the trooper by a foot or two as the trooper kept trying to grab him. Neither could run, just slowly shuffle. They had EMS respond for both of them...

Greg Dwrote: Just remember, without probable cause they will ask your permission to search your car. Some people say “well I have nothing to hide” or “if I say no, then they will think I’m guilty of something”.  The correct answer every time when they ask to search your car is “no thank you”.

I got pulled over once and was asked about firearms.  I replied “do you suspect I have firearms?”  After his nonconfirmation I said, “oh, so your just bored and looking for something to do?”  He replied “have a good day.” 

Adam Stackhousewrote:

I got pulled over once and was asked about firearms.  I replied “do you suspect I have firearms?”  After his nonconfirmation I said, “oh, so your just bored and looking for something to do?”  He replied “have a good day.” 

You necro’d a seven year old thread. I take it you’re just bored and looking for something to do?

The war on drugs is not helping….it was a campaign slogan( Nixon)

reagan admin ran with it…

abuse… addiction …mental health all contribute to the “problem”

profiling and the money making machine that the criminal justice system has become is not helping

the solution is not an easy road to navigate…

be safe out there

peace