Dui checkpoints
How about a lil icon for checkpoints?
CT State Police announce the locations of DUI Checkpoints - see: http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=514332&A=4226 click that link to see a PDF of the scheduled checkpoints / targeted enforcement areas. Basically what this means is they have officers that are specifically assigned to this & unless something major happens they won't be dispatched to other calls...OldGnome wrote:Why would you report a DUI checkpoint? I am certainly not interested in helping drunk drivers stay on the road.
Please explain.
and the fact that there will be lane closures/restrictions/narrowing, people in the road, etc...daknife wrote:Report it for the traffic impact.
Why not report it? These checkpoints effect traffic, pose a hazard (barriers, lane closures, police cars, officers in the road, etc)pogglywoggly wrote:Why not add registration/inspection checkpoints
That's been suggested several times - it's own report would also allow for easier descriptions/lane closure info...pogglywoggly wrote:...as well as giving road construction it's own dedicated tab
Sort of, SCOTUS basically requires that there are safeguards, the NHTSA recommends the safeguards, but public notice isn't a federally established requirement. But in California the requirement established by the CASC is that "Advance publicity is necessary to reduce the intrusiveness of the checkpoint and increase its deterrent effect." And there's a pretty good chance if a DUI checkpoint was set up in another state without notice it'd end in a case going to the state supreme court and there being a similar finding.daknife wrote:I'm not one hundred percent certain, but I'm fairly positive the public notice is a federal requirement imposed by the Supreme Court.
Report it for the traffic impact. It's not like the locations are secret, by order of the Supreme Court they must publicize the location of any such check point several days in advance.OldGnome wrote:Why would you report a DUI checkpoint? I am certainly not interested in helping drunk drivers stay on the road.
Please explain.
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