Posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by jmc813
Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, about an hour's drive west of Denver, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.
"I don't think they're authorized to do what they're doing, and I view it as a gross violation of law-enforcement protocol," Roberto Sequeira, 51, told reporters for the Denver Post.
He said he and his wife were "detained" for about 15 minutes even after they protested they wanted to get home because of a sleepy child in their car.
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Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.
They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.
"It was like a telemarketer that you couldn't hang up on," Undersheriff John Bayne told the newspaper.
Sgt. Bob Enney said the deputies' assistance to the organization involved stopping motorists at the sites along Colorado Highway 119 for "surveys" on any drug or alcohol use. Surveyors also requested that motorists submit to breath, blood and saliva tests.
Enney said several hundred motorists were tested, and some later complained.
Sequeira said he repeatedly asked if the questioners were law enforcement officials and said he was not interested in participating in the study, but still was not given clearance to leave.
He told the newspaper that he and his family were approached by two researchers, and even after his repeated refusals, officials offered his wife, who was driving, $100 to get the couple to take part in a breath test.
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Not as good as I'd like. But then again it never is.
Been laying in ammo for what I got mostly. That's never a bad idea.
Check six, bro.
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Or freight cars.
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welcome aboard!
I don’t know much about the lifestyle in your community, but should you really being doing that stuff if it bleeds?
Good to see somebody else “gets it”. Did the article explain who “institute” folks are? A guess would be this is some sort of nonsense experiment run by a university. It doesn’t look like the good citizens reacted favorably either. It’s amazing what people will do when directed, e.g. Milgram et al.
This is wrong. It is unlawful arrest. The sheriff actively took part in an illegal detention of people about whom there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE to suspect a crime.
The ARMED power of the police was used here. The police have the ability to put handcuffs on people, to spray them with mace, to taser them, to hit them with sticks and to shoot them. This awesome power must be used justly.
Those who took part in it must be arrested, including the sheriff. The civilians who were stopped must sue for and obtain several million dollars in damages.
The power of the government is constantly being expanded. First it was “drunk checkpoints”, then “seatbelt checkpoints”, now this. Next it will be “smoking in the car with kids” checkpoints. Then “hate thoughts” checkpoints.
I found it pretty amazing that these cops actually PULLED people over who were driving and minding their own business and then PRESSURED them for their DNA.
If they really needed this stuff why not hassle people in a mall or something instead.
Crazy Story, I just wish I was one of the people pulled over.
Thanks!
It was called "WW-something-or-other".
I forget.
Enney said several hundred motorists were tested,”
Several hundred flunked the Freedom Test.The govt. must be ecstatic.
I assume the Institute for Research and Evaluation is PIRE.
Check out their sponsor page here and you’ll see why they thought they could/Did? get away with it:
http://www.pire.org/sponsors.asp?cms=96
But I have to believe they knew full well it was illegal.
Wow, here come the lawsuits.
BTTT
And I just sold my M1A and my Remington 700... I’m looking at buying an Armalite AR10. Heard anything about them? I still have a weapon or two, just in case of emergencies though. hahahaha
Nothing bout the AR10 for real but rumor is that is is a great deal .......I have a friend that has a few of em and he is happier than a pig in deep mud with his !
I am sticking with my M1A and a SOCOM I picked up last fall........... a M4 and HBAR keep the gun safe company these days as backup calibers.
let me know what model your interested in and I’ll ask if he has info on it for ya ........
I’m going to spend my hard-earned bucks on the AR10 A2 Infantry model. Then the plan is to pick up an AR10 T upper assembly, flat top, with some Leupold glass to see how it shoots. (come on lottery!)
That’s a good idea to have back-up calibers, what’s your take on 7.62X39? Any weapons out there chambered for that round worth the money?
I was looking at Springfield Armory’s Super Match M1A with the McMillan USMC camo stock. Very nice rifle.
I have one of these from Krebs Customs.
The MAC-90 is a very good OTC AK Clone when you can find one if ya don’t want the Krebs. For the money it is a reliable little urban ubangy !!
Very nice. Now I want one of those too. You have very good taste in firearms.
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