I have been subjected to numerous “stop and fish” including the DUI checkpoints ,because I currently work late into the evenings.!2 or 15 cops blocking a four lane roadway or an hour or two,questioning maybe a hundred drivers and lucky if they find ONE drunk!
Along with fellow students, I was stopped several times
a block away from the college shuttle bus’ last stop, c.
11 p.m. This was near some apartment blocks with
a wide range, shall we say of residents. I later learned
that the officer who did this was making sure he would
be able to go off duty when his shift was over; he would
stop patently unsuspicious persons for about 15” until
quitting time. This sort of de facto small scale intrusion,
tolerated by the cititzenry and brass, I think, was
tiny opening into larger violations.