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Friday, July 2, 2010 | 3:30 p.m.
Metro Police will conduct four sobriety checkpoints through the weekend in an effort to combat drunk driving over the holiday.
The first checkpoint will start at 7 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday in the area of Nellis and Lake Mead boulevards.
A checkpoint will be set up in the area of Cheyenne Avenue and Tenaya Way from 7 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday.
On Sunday night, Metro will have a checkpoint set up at Charleston Boulevard and Bruce Street, as well as one at Sahara Avenue and Commercial Circle. Both will be conducted between 7 p.m. and 3 a.m.
The checkpoints are coordinated by Metro Police and are funded by a grant from the state.
AAA will have its “Tipsy Tow” program in effect this weekend, which offers a free tow for would-be drivers from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday.
The newspaper is unreal. Why would they think it
is beneficial to warn drunk drivers where the check points are going to be. If they could find out where Binladen was hiding. They would be more than happy to give him warning that we are on the way to celebrate his finding. You don't get brownie points for warning these MORONS, MORONS.
brian it won't make a difference trust me. There will still be a report of a hundred arrests or so.
brianzembic:
Talk to the Supreme Court. That's how police departments get away with DUI stops...they have to publicly announce where they are going to be.
Please, my fellow citizens. If you pass through a checkpoint, DO NOT MAKE ANY FURTIVE MOVES!
It must be a federal law that they tell where their going to set these things up because they had to tell the public where these check points were going to be when i lived in both California and Minnesota
Don't worry Brian,they know where Bin Laden is hiding,they just go the opposit way,if they found him the war must end,don't you get it !
For your first post here brianzembic you did not do well.
The Supreme court ruled YEARS AGO that the public has to be made aware so the drunks do not yell entrapment.
You might want to make a new posting name and try again.
The staff here has reported before: 'It's a state law, that they have to make it 'public' where the checkpoints will be.' Even though I can't understand that logic?! And why does it seem that these checkpoints seem to always target the poorer east side neighborhoods?
Love how they do all the checkpoint locations mostly on the North side. What? No one drives drunk in Spring Valley, Paradise, Enterprise, Lone Mountain, Badlands, Red Rock, East Las Vegas or Summerlin but chooses to place checkpoints near Sunrise Manor and North Las Vegas in areas where the less affluent live. Nice.
If they don't post it it's entrapment.ask any lawyer...
Next thing you know, they'll release anyone who didn't know about the checkpoints, and have a trailer full of public defenders on standby for all who need them... and of course free rides home for drunks.
GO STIMULUS!
There is a very informative article on why these checkpoints are given out by the news on Wikipedia. Basically the constitution states that no one shall be subjected to unreasonable search in their "persons" (themselves) or "effects" (their car) without probable cause. In order to allow probable cause, the checkpoints are given out ahead of time and clearly marked (flashing lights, cones).
Can anyone explain why these checkpoints are NEVER anywhere near ANY casino parking facility? Huh..anyone..please..anyone.
I always thought it was because of the juice, but that can't be because Metro would never ever be involved in anything like that.
I don't think announcing in the paper that you're going to search people constitutes probable cause. Probable cause is essentially defined as sufficient evidence that would convince a reasonable person that arrest is warranted.
DUI checkpoints are a damned joke. It's nothing more than PR and pissing away good money for no good reason. Does anyone know what the national arrest rate is at DUI checkpoints? The most I've ever read about has been a dozen or so people arrested in a single night.
Also, when Clarence Thomas thinks something is unconstitutional, especially as it pertains to state powers, you have to really think something is unconstitutional. To wit, Justice Thomas said: "I rather doubt that the Framers of the Fourth Amendment would have considered 'reasonable' a program of indiscriminate stops of individuals not suspected of wrongdoing."
Too lazy to find recent numbers for success rates. It's Friday night. But the SCOTUS case allowing these checkpoints notes that a Maryland program arrested 0.3 percent (143 people among 41,000 drivers at 125 different checkpoints) of the motorists who passed through.
http://www.getmadd.com/MICHIGANvsSITZdis...
They have to announce the checkpoints or else it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, unreasonable search and seizure plus no warrant. They are pulling you over at random without probable cause. If you knowingly go to where they are then it implies your consent to the search.
Again, as in always, you notice than none of the checkpoints are anywhere near the strip, where most of the drinking is taking place. I wonder why?
Announcing it is better than not, or these feeds would be full of claims and cries of entrapment!
All you conspiracy theorists are a crack-up. The checkpoints are in the neighborhoods and traffic corridors where the DUI's and drunk driving accidents are. Has nothing to do with income or demographics. Stupid.
The idea of "police checkpoints" operating on "Independence Day"? It would be funny if it wasn't infuriating and insulting.
Yes Yes, citizzzens dee poleece vill be vaiting for dee drunk driverst et oll dee rdddeculus locations any questeeons vill bee not tolerated. Sank you,
das gustapo
Ummm...two months ago the police had a very large check point in Summerlin. I know because I went through it.
What is the deal with you guys and automatically assuming things about the police?
They don't announce them here in NY.I wish they would,not because I'm driving drunk,I just don't want to deal with that Nazi crap and I don't care what the Supreme Court says about road blocks..eerrrr sobriety 'show me your papers' checkpoints. If my driving is okay you shouldn't be pulling me over.
This is crazy!!! Checkpoints should start from 2am - 7am. They have the timings all wrong. Most drunks, weekenders, start punding like at 9 or 10 11 and are drunk by 2 3 or 4. what a joke.
They don't do it by the strip, because they don't want to scare the tourist and because its ok to drink and walk where you are staying at.
it doesn't matter if they posted it or do not post it. they'll catch plenty of people.
if posting where they will be REALLY made people avoid those areas...then they wouldn't be catching people and they wouldn't be doing them anymore.
and how could anyone be opposed to these things? i think they should do these things 2 or 3 times every week.
It's a good thing they don't have an IQ checkpoint for California drivers entering our city..The way they drive, this place would be a ghost town..
An IQ checkpoint! What a good idea...for politicians and other people "in charge" of public policies. Maybe for some of the people who post on this site too.