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Originally Posted by NumberTwo
They may not need to give me personally the reason they pulled me over, but they do need probable cause. While driving is a privelage, it isnt the Polices job to enforce/deny that privelage. Thats why we have the MVC.
This issue is kinda like a double edged sword. Im all for the Police getting unwanted drunk drivers off the roads, but I am not for them just pulling people over for whatever reason they feel like.
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The MVC doesn't have patrol cars enforcing the MVC laws. The cops do that. Hence the cop's job is to enforce the privilege.
I've only been through one checkpoint, on the night before Turkey Day when I was waitressing down in Browns Mills. They told me right away that it was a random checkpoint, asked if I'd been drinking, where I came from, where I was going, and I was on my way.
I'm ok with checkpoints if they are stopping everyone or stopping everyone who comes out of the bar nearby. I'm a little less ok with pulling people over without probable cause, but understand that it is part of the priviledge. If it was a right to drive, I'd have a difference stance on the matter.