1. I need HoughMade’s number for my placard!...This is how this would go- I'd ask if anyone got hurt and assuming the answer is no, I'd try to give them Kirk's number while doubled over laughing.
How do the unlicensed drivers get registration and insurance?
Now that's funny.
... I work afternoons and work a lot of the “drive sober or get pulled over” grant OT at night. I’m also on call in the early mornings for SBI/Fatal crashes. Add all that up and 130 isn’t a lot. Our full time DUI unit guys do 300+ annually.
the lions share of arrests are alcohol only but drugs are making their way into the spotlight.
I will have made somewhere around 130 DUI arrests in 2018 and exactly ONE of them came from a checkpoint.
An observation and a question.
In 31 years of driving, the last 23 in NWI, I have never encountered a checkpoint.
How many people who preach he Ziploc bag, never roll down he window gospel have ever actually executed this plan in real life?
Just curious.
The court was very clear in it's ruling that assault weapons bans are only acceptable because of the great danger they pose.
Because of the narrow scope of what the court deems OK, I do not see an awb as a gateway for ANY other type of regulation.
Exact same concept imo.
Exact same concept imo.
1. I need HoughMade’s number for my placard!
2. You guys musta never lived on a Military post checkpoints are normal as well as gate sweeps.
This can sometimes include getting frisked and they always look under the car seat.
3. Why no texting and driving checkpoints I am about positive that texting is the new “OWI” ?
4. Operator Never Licensed - Why is this like a big thing?
Down here we get like 2 or 3 a week on the blotter.
I can’t understand the logic ?
How do the unlicensed drivers get registration and insurance?
Living on a military post vs. public is 2 completely different things. You sign a paper giving full search consent when you get a tag or take your base driving course. Comparing a military base security to a civilian police force isn't / shouldn't ever be a comparison. I can carry my pistol in public, I can't carry it in our office buildings and I signed the dotted line. private vs. public even if that private is publicly owned it's still a completely different ball game.
Texting and driving is a much bigger threat, but the "think of the children" statists don't think enforcing distracted driving is as sexy to donors as "DUI CHECKPOINTS" Showing a bunch of teens and adults getting ticketed isn't as fun to show as a sloppy drunk falling while being humiliated on the side of the road. (not on the drunk's side, just think that after a failed eye test, smell test, just give them a breathalyzer and send them on to further testing if they pass that but are still obviously intoxicated. If they fail the breath test cart them off rather than have them go through all the motions for nothing.)
You don't have to have a drivers license to own and insure a car. I know multiple epileptics who own and insure their vehicles but do not drive them themselves. Plus no insurance company is going to turn down money, and no state is going to tell someone they can't pay a tax.
The crash data does NOT show texting to be a bigger threat than impaired driving. The problem with stopping texting from happening is that a lot of states do not have laws against it, and of the ones that do, the statutes don't have teeth. In Indiana, the texting and driving law has ZERO teeth. You can do anything you want with your phone while you drive except text or email. If you get stopped, it is a valid defense that you were watching a youtube video and not texting. For the law to have teeth, it would have to restrict device usage totally and go completely hands-free.
The crash data does NOT show texting to be a bigger threat than impaired driving. The problem with stopping texting from happening is that a lot of states do not have laws against it, and of the ones that do, the statutes don't have teeth. In Indiana, the texting and driving law has ZERO teeth. You can do anything you want with your phone while you drive except text or email. If you get stopped, it is a valid defense that you were watching a youtube video and not texting. For the law to have teeth, it would have to restrict device usage totally and go completely hands-free.
Remember texting before full keyboards and smart phones- 3 presses on a key per letter?
I-65 was never so fun.
Memories.