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July 01, 2005

I'll admit my bias

Yesterday, Rob at Wizbang posted about traffic checkpoints. Regardless that such checkpoints have been ruled constitutional, Rob believes are they a violation of the 4th Amendment. Later, in the comments, he states

I still don't see where a few drunk driver arrests legitimizes traffic stops without probable cause
Today I got back from lunch, and has been too usual the last couple of weeks, there were a couple of police officers waiting for me. And one of them, Stacey, I recognized with a sinking feeling. She's a member of MAIT (Major Accident Investigation Team) and I had already seen her earlier in the week.

Yep. She handed me a Vehicular Manslaughter case to input. Teen with a .15 BAC driving between 80-100 mph in daddy's SUV goes through a block wall, kills his friend who is a passenger.

Earlier this week I processed a case where the guy had been smoking meth for a couple of days, blows a red light and t-bones another car and kills one of a family of four.

Today was my FIFTH vehicular manslaughter case in TWO weeks! And Stacey's partner told me that he's typing up another one to give us next week.

F**k this sh*t. Let me make this perfectly clear. Driving is a privilege and when you petition to drive upon public roads, you give up a certain amount of expectation of privacy. It's part of the contract you have with the government and with other members of the public using those roads.

Don't like it? Sell your car and don't drive. Otherwise, I wish we had MORE checkpoints.

Posted by Darleen at July 1, 2005 08:53 PM

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