Are all of the Freepers on this thread really so stupid?
I know the reporter is but you Freepers really surprise me.
These signs have been used for years.
Park this sign about 1/4 mile before a rest area or remote exit.
Have your deputies in the rest area or remote exit ready to inspect anyone suspicious exiting.
Get it? The sign says 1 mile to an inspection station and the rest area or remote exit is just before that.
The fact that you are trying to avoid the inspection area raises probable cause.
of what ???
To start with, maybe some one merely has to take a dump and that is why they pulled into a rest stop, it is a rest stop isn’t it? Secondly, probably cause is not mentioned in the constitution as a reason to search somenone’s person, vehicle or home. Probable cause is supposed to be used to obtain a search warrant. The judges who made the rulings that cops can use “probable cause” to search people without a warrant made unconstitutional rulings and we have been suffering for it every since.
The sign says 1 mile to an inspection station and the rest area or remote exit is just before that.
The fact that you are trying to avoid the inspection area raises probable cause.
So the sole purpose of having the DoT build rest stops along the interstate is for eluding police roadblocks. IOW, if a family has a whiny kid that hast to relieve herself Right Now, that is prima facie evidence proof of a deliberate intent to avoid an unconstitutional search and seizure.
And since when has it been a crime to want to avoid unconstitutional search and seizures? If a person reads about a police road-block at intersection X for four hours beginning at time Y, and that reader decides to take a different route or reschedule their trip - should that thought crime merit a five in the morning armed invasion by the SWAT based on the "fact" that the citizen wanted to avoid an unconstitutional inspection?
Its when I read comments like yours that I am convinced that we have irredeemably lost the Republic.
So, I’m on my way to a meeting and I don’t plan on pulling into a rest area ‘cause I’m running late. I drive past and that’s probable cause? Avoiding an inspection is probably cause? Or say I DO pull into the rest area to take a leak. Is that volunteering for an inspection?
How ‘bout when some cop knocks on my door and wants to come in and look around for no reason and I say “Hell, no! Get away from my door, copper!” Is that probable cause? No. The judge is going to want a reason before a search warrant is issued.
Would it be legal if the cops put a sign up at the entrance to the neighborhood that said anyone who moves here will have their home inspected at anytime without a warrant. Would that be constitutional? No. The judge is going to want a reason before a search warrant is issued.
Any unreasonable search without cause is uncostitutional. Just like groping me at the airport. They have no reason to suspect I’m going to blow up a plane.
What cops do and what they should be allowed to do are two separate things.