Posted on 10/27/2014 10:02:35 AM PDT by relictele
The Springfield Police Department, along with the Clark County Sheriff’s Department and Ohio State Highway Patrol were in for a big surprise last night when members of a local “Cop Block” chapter turned up to warn drivers about the disturbing “sobriety” checkpoint that was set up.
The Clark County OVI Task Force said that their sobriety checkpoint was a “no refusal” inspection of drivers, to “make sure no one’s out drinking and driving,” an officer with the Springfield Police told us. The checkpoint was conducted at State Route 40 and State Route 68 in Clark County and began at 8:00 p.m.
At this “no refusal” checkpoint, every car was checked, regardless of the absence of any probable cause to stop and inspect.
Police said that the checkpoint also sees a lot of ticketing for seatbelt violations, which again are inspected without probable cause. “There is zero tolerance for any offense,” and officer with the Sheriff’s Department said.
Most disturbing to many citizens was the mention of forced blood extraction by a nurse who waited on standby for officers to give her the word. A media contact with the Sheriff’s Department told Counter Current News that they still have to obtain a warrant in order to take blood. But that is something that they were ready to do. If a driver refused to consent to a breathalyzer test or field sobriety test, then officers would call for a warrant and the restrained and arrested driver would then forcibly have their blood extracted by the nurse on standby at the checkpoint.
Members of a local Dayton, Ohio Cop Block chapter set up down the street from this checkpoint, and another 30 miles away last night. They held signs that warned drivers to turn around to avoid the police “vampire” checkpoint.
Hundreds of drivers took their advice and turned away, much to the dismay of the officers at the check point. That’s when Springfield Police called in Detective Beau Collins, who showed up, shining his blinding cruiser light in their faces, and trying to intimidate the activists.
Watch the video below, where Detective Collins tries to tell the protesters that they must leave the sidewalk, but gets “Cop Blocked” instead. It all starts around 4:30 in the video, when Collins pulls up.
Watch the Springfield Police Chief, in another video from last night, saying that Americans are not allowed to travel without a vehicle!
These checkpoints are about ticket revenue and power, not about protecting us from drunk drivers. Should your travel be interrupted, and your car and demeanor inspected by police when they have no probable cause that you have done anything wrong?
When we stand up to these bullying checkpoints, they lose their power. If you enjoy seeing cops who are violating the law and Constitution get shut down, then SPREAD THE WORD!
Virtually EVERYTHING done by traffic cops is about ticket revenue. Traffic police contribute NOTHING to traffic safety.
Disagree?
Check to see if anyone in your city publishes a listing of the most dangerous street and intersections (somebody does in most cities). Now think when the last time you saw a radar trap or patrol car at one of those places.
Now think of a nice long straight road, where there have been no accidents listed, but provides good long sight lines for a radar gun and plenty of shoulder room to pull cars over. Yep, it's the same in every city. Traffic laws are ‘enforced’ where lots of tickets can be written in an hour.
That's traffic ‘safety’ for you.
This is bullshit. In my state (Washington), the Supreme Court here has ruled these are unconstitutional.
This will end badly. There are people out there with extreme needle phobia who would resist with lethal force any such attempt. They will die but so might some checkpoint personnel.
That's easy... PROBABLE CAUSE.
Michigan is kind of odd in how we ended up without checkpoints.
The legislature approved them and the state supreme court said they were unconstitutional so it went to the US supreme court who ruled that they were constitutional. By the time the US Supremes handed down their ruling, the state legislature decided to go with the state supreme court.
Just desensitizing the sheeple for the coming clamp down. They probably make enough in tickets to pay for the exercise with a little left over for a new tactical toy but the main objective is, like the surge in dog shootings, to get us used to an increase in the presence of an enhanced and empowered police force. Not a force of these yoyos but a new unit that is coming, that is being built as we go about our daily lives, unknowing. One day it will be there.. with new uniforms of black and leather, with cryptic emblems built around runes, and under the helmuts, hard faces reflecting the merciless conditioning that will allow them to do what is commanded. Even their own parents will grow to fear them...
The states I have lived in (mostly in the South) have so-called “implied consent” laws. Because both breathalyzer and field-sobriety tests are notorious for high false-positive rates, many drivers who are subjected to DUI screening (either randomly at a checkpoint or with probable cause) demand that they be given a blood-alcohol test, typically at the local hospital. Both the police and the drivers know that the time spent en route to the hospital will inexorably lower the BAC, thereby reducing the likelihood of a true positive test outcome. That's why some police departments now have on-site blood testing.
Never had that happen.
'No refusal' is a recent development, essentially made of whole cloth by the police. Who are they to make that call?
I remember being stopped at the only sobriety checkpoint I and there was no way out of it.
Most states have a provision in the law that an alternate route must be provided. Naturally, the police will be happy to play cat and mouse by watching for and pursuing anyone exercising a few last scraps of freedom by using such an alternate.
In addition, most checkpoints did not stop and inspect every vehicle and they certainly had nothing to do with seatbelts (another thumb-screw law originally sold under the rubric of safety).
It was totally unoffensive.
Words fail.
Constitution Schmonstitution!
“There is zero tolerance for any offense”
“Any” offense eh?
How about zero tolerance(!) for violations of our constitutional rights?
I wonder how that would fly...
So true. This is “show me your papers” I don’t care what the reason is. Its all unconstitutional.
I believe in the same session that the Supreme Court found DUI checkpoints to be Constitutional they found that flag burning was a Constitutionally protected form of free speech.
So next time you get stopped at one of these checkpoints, step out of the vehicle and set fire to Old Glory. You’ll tie our entire Federal Court system in knots for the next 13 years as they figure out what to do with you.
Not entirely. Some things, like these "checkpoints" (next step? papers please), are about intimidation and attitude conditioning more than revenue. Learn your place, understand who's in charge, and don't forget it.
I think if they run a breathalyzer on off-duty cops it would be the best place to start.
Precisely. I'm a strong supporter of local and state police, even certain federal officers, even when they're just doing their job, etc., but at some point, someone has to 'take point' on the pushback. That's 'doing my job,' too.
I'm also a big believer in the 'right to hide nothing,' and under the right circumstances force the local gendarmerie to force a sobriety test on me for the negative result, since I neither drink nor do illegal drugs.
There is lawlessness loose in the land these days, and we are being ruled by capricious corrupt children, and these methods are all about bottlenecking a larger problem for convenience and optics of literal monsters. I'm not above throwing a wrench into this process, if that's what it takes.
I'll choose my own battles and the ground to do battle on, however. You can count on it.
So who is in charge of the Springfield Police?
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