Four DWI tickets written at Camden County checkpoint

" Thanks for the MSHP proactive efforts to protect the general public, great work, and great appreciation! "

" Rocky V wrote,'Good job Cole County!'

What does that have to do with this article? "

" How about sitting outside Specs, TGs, X the spot, etc and nailing these drivers as they stagger out of the bars and get into their cars.

There are so many easier ways to get drunk drivers off the roads than pulling over cars and hoping you can "catch" them doing something wrong. "

" Law enforcement spends an inordinate amount of time hasseling innocent people, and yet the streets are full of criminals and crimes. There has to be more efficient ways of fighting all this crime we have without harassing innocent people.

I hate drunk drivers and I want them off the streets too. However, the streets are full of them and full of drivers on cell phones, texting, reading books, applying makeup, driving unsafe vehicles, children without car seats, road rage, red light running, speeding, following too closely, etc. How about getting some of these idiots off the road instead of harrassing drivers with no probably cause to think that they have been driving under the influence. "

" I don't have to justify it because the U.S. Supreme Court already has. As you would say it's legal "period". LOL "

" LOL actually plain sight is just that, plain sight. If an officer is conducting a legal stop, which a DWI checkpoint is according to the US Supreme Court, and he sees evidence of another crime no warrant is needed. DWI checkpoints are legal, the probable cause to stop the vehicle was to check for a DWI driver, the secondary law breaking was in plain sight. DWI checkpoints are legal based on the randomness of cars stopped. No one makes you drive down that road, you choose that road yourself and there is a checkpoint. Once at the checkpoint a certain number of cars are waived through and then one in every five or six is stopped. "

" Rocky - I understand you have no concept of civil liberties or the law....that much is apparent. You want to say "plain sight" but you fail to recognize that you are supposed to have PROBABLE CAUSE BEFORE you can stop someone and have the opportunity to see anything. Sheesh.... "

" "Evidence resulting from an illegal search may not be used to discover other evidence, under a legal rule colorfully known as the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine. The "tree" is the evidence that the police illegally seize in the first place; the "fruit" is the second-generation product of the illegally seized evidence. Both tree and fruit are inadmissible at trial." "

" Hmmmm:

The Fourth Amendment to the Constutution of the United States of America says:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." "

" Whatever happened to "probably cause"? "

" G any violation of the law in plain sight does not need a warrant. Out of 210 cars stopped 93 were violating the law in some fashion. That means around 44% of those who passed through that checkpoint were breaking the law in some fashion. Hence the 44% success rate. No harrassment involved. When you sign up and take the drivers test you know driving is a privledge and you follow the rules. Without getting into it again, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled checkpoints are not unconstitutional so get over it, or walk. Good job Cole County! "

" Rocky - You are wrong....the legality of checkpoints is limited to ONLY looking for drunk drivers. Just because the law takes the opportunity to infringe on people's rights even more than the Supreme Court allows does NOT mean they are legally right. It is a DWI checkpoint so the success rate is 1.9%, period.
The courts allow the checkpoints to get drunk drivers off the road, yet it is often common (especially where it is not an HP run checkpoint) for local LE to check ID's of EVERYONE in the car....driving our not. This is NOT a communist country and I'm sick of law enforcement overstepping their legal authority. "

" More around a 44% success rate lol. 210 cars stopped with 93 violations of the law witnessed is much more than a biased 1.9% reporting. Some were arrests, some warnings, but 93 is a very high number. Remember driving is a privledge and not a right so if you don't like it walk! lol "

" I removed a couple posts from a couple authors because of personal sniping. Please stick to issues. Thank you. --Rick Brown, online editor, News Tribune "

" Wow! 1.9% effective use of our tax dollars here.
98.1% of the effort was pure harrassment of innocent citizens without probable cause. "