You can cite as many folks as you'd like for DUI. But until we actually punish them, people won't change their behavior. Most law abiding citizens in this state have zero problems with police officers or DFW officers or any other enforcement agency. It's just that those who break our laws don't get punished.

SO.. put up checkpoints, make the general public feel more safe, and then allow the offenders to go back to doing what it is they got busted for in the first place. Better yet, let's make sure that 5 year old kid who is on the no fly list gets a good strip search because that will definitely enhance my national security.

I know I feel better already.

The United States Supreme Court disagrees with you but they don't have 9000 posts on PP so I'm sure they're wrong. The Supreme Court was established by the Constitution to be the arbiter and interpreter of the constitution. The delegates that constucted the constitution in 1787 during those 100 days new it wasn't a perfect document and it would need interpretation as times changed. That's the purpose of the US Supreme Court. To look at a law and determine if it's constitutionally sound. They have done this with DUI checkpoints and they say that it doesnt violate the 4th Amendment.

I get it just fine...but thanks for your concern anyway.

Noone has claimed that checkpoints stop drunk drivers. It removes them from the road.

Figures that you'd like Texas...

How about, for first time offense 1 year suspended license and mandatory one week in jail. Second time offense you LOSE your license for life and spend 6 mos in jail. This is considering nobody got hurt during these offenses. I know this will clog the jails and the system but I could only imagine the drop off in DUI'S and the lifes saved.

Personal attack-"1bigwhatever" "part of the problem and not part of the solution" Making a comment about having too much time on your hands is a personal attack? Not even close.

I found some people that would have appreciated DUI checkpoints. Maybe you could give them your speech about personal liberties. Before anyone gets on their high horse about the use of these pics, reprint was approved by the victims of these DUI accidents.

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Like I said bighog...if you agree with this then you don't mind if I stop by and search your house any time I feel like it. You have nothing to hide so you shouldn't mind. And if I can get a large enough group together we can search all of the houses all of the time and we'll irradicate almost everything especially the very freedom this country was founded on.
After all an awful lot of people seem to get killed in their own homes and often times alcohol or drug related. If it saves just one person.
BTW, I do think that some become cops for the power trip. But that's not what I meant. I meant law enforcement and politicians work in concert for more power. Law enforcement under the guise of more power to catch the bad guys and politicians wringing their hands over how much revenue the fines will bring in. And checkpoints will generate a lot of little fines like seat belts, equipment, etc. I wonder if we can start confiscation like Florida so the police can target expensive cars and leave my truck alone.

Anything I said that you would like to intelligently disagree with or you just want to jump on the cop bashing bandwagon with your girlfriend hohbomb?

If there is no negligence I think those are called accidents.

Pics of people horribly burned. Nice. I know for a fact people have been horribly burned in their own homes. Sometimes it's faulty iring. Sometimes an assailant. Sometimes they did something stupid. We need to search houses man. They're dying out there I can feel it!

They are a bit touchy feely aren't they?

How about we just make a driver's license a bit harder to get in this state? Our kids can't pass the WASL but are given a driver's license just because they can answer 4 out of 5 questions right?

Driving should be taken seriously but the only one's taking it serious have an IQ over 50.

We don't have strict DUI laws because our lawmakers don't want to write their own sentence.

Bobbe Bridge... Jane Hague....

I hear what you're saying, there are inherent risks while driving. It is by far the most dangerous thing we do day to day. Sometimes things happen that are unforseeable and deaths occurr. The laws are very loose when you hurt or kill someone with an auto with malice. The punishment never fits the crime. I think sleep depervation is a huge killer and should be taken as serious as DWI.

hehehe ya ok i'll admit that comment was pretty stupid
just tired of all the new ways politicians have for liberating our funds

Maybe the USSC has upheld DUI checkpoints, but the plain English reading of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution makes it clear that such checkpoints are not legal under the Constitution. Aunty M called this one correctly.

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What I don't think is yet clear to some is this.

If you want drunks on the road, then prosecute those you arrest in a manner which REALLY discourages drunk driving. No pleading out, heavy fines, mandatory license suspensions, and jail terms for repeat offenders.

The way to keep drunks off the road IS NOT to arrest more of them, and then prosecute them with a slap on the wrist. This tactic can only be interpreted to mean you're more interested in collecting fines than ending drunk driving.

Why not just require Interlock Blow and Go devices on all vehicles? There's obviously a few people contributing to this thread that have no shortage of air to expel. You know who you are.

And yeah, what Dan said. How 'bout one DUI and you never drive again?

On a side-note, I've talked to a cop before who says some nights as many as half the people he'll pull over are driving under the influence... Checkpoints aint gonna stop that...

Power trip? Really? Because I disagreed with you I must be on a power trip, huh? For being such a fan of 4th amendment, I guess you don't care much about the 1st unless everyone is lining up to agree with you.

"The US Supreme Court has erred and reversed themselves before, and they will again. That won't stop those in favor of a socialist/police state from attempting to thwart any and all attempts to violate civil rights."

They have refused to even hear another case regarding this issue. If they had some interest in even looking at it again, they would hear a case. They are done with it and so am I.