Drug Checkpoint Ahead?
Relax and Keep Driving...
Why? Because there isn’t exactly such a thing as a drug checkpoint. In City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, the Supreme Court found random drug checkpoints unconstitutional in 2000. Since then, police (particularly in the mid-west) have gotten into the habit of putting signs up warning drivers of upcoming drug checkpoints and then detaining and searching drivers who make illegal u-turns or desperately fling contraband from their vehicles. These checkpoint-like fake checkpoints serve as the functional equivalent of a checkpoint without violating the Court’s prohibition against checkpoints.
FREE COPY OF POLICE ENCOUNTERS HERE!!!
1. Tender your license, registration and insurance card.
2. Decline to any searches.
3. State, I do not wish to discuss my affairs, am I free to go?
4. Repeat 2 and 3 above.
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