Comments on: Federal Court Rules DC Checkpoints Unconstitutional

By: Odentex

Odentex — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:58:08 +0000

Let’s see, Neener or a panel of the DC Appeals Court with about 50 years legal experience… hmmm… I wonder who has a better handle on what is unconstitutional?

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:29:31 +0000

imoan,
how much in taxes are you willing to pay for all that? With all you mentioned, we’d be working for paystubs.

By: imoan

imoan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:53:52 +0000

I would personally like to have check points in my neighborhood, hell I want them even on my street. I also want that gigantic spot light we sometime have on the corner every night for a year straight. There are too many people coming in/out only to buy drugs, dirty up the streets and harass the people that live here. On a positive note the MPD have been representing these past 4-5 days, police cars, bike cops, and even the segway cops

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:52:16 +0000

Anyone who calls the police checkpoints fascist has no idea what the word fascist means. You all write like you’re 12 years old and Mom won’t let you drive her car.

Similar checkpoints are legally enacted throughout the suburbs and if I have to live in the suburbs to avoid being shot at I will.

Nothing in the checkpoints was unconstitutional and I know very well what I’m talking about.

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:50:16 +0000

Buck Turgison is wrong because what he described never happened in Trinidad.

Anyone care to write about what the checkpoints really were rather than someone’s paranoid fantasy of what they were?

By: Odentex

Odentex — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:38:54 +0000

What’s most depressing about this is the decision by the city to waste taxpayer dollars to litigate something that anyone who has taken a civics class would know is unconstitutional. Much like the similarly stupid fight to keep the old gun ban law, and ironically strike down better written handgun ban laws in the process, what DC residents should really gather from this is that our Mayor and his crack legal staff are happy to spend our taxes on lost causes as long as they get enough publicity for themselves.

By: Skeletor

Skeletor — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:54:23 +0000

Man, I hate it when the police goof off when they should be working! It’s like when I’ve got a deadline at work and instead of getting it done, I’m entering comments … in … PoP. Hmm. Nevermind.

By: victoriam

victoriam — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:28:27 +0000

No, Dee Montgomerry pennyworth ( “- if you don’t want to tell the police why you’re headed into the hood, you’re probably planning to do something wrong.)” It means I’m supporting and enjoying the Constitutional rights of the United States.

By: Another Anon

Another Anon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:48:57 +0000

Last year, I snapped a photo on my phone of a cop sleeping in his car while he was at a rockblock near Eastern Market on a Sunday afternoon. He was hard at work… I should see if I still have it.

By: Just J

Just J — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:33 +0000

M and Jamie brought up good points, which both made me realize that I should have done a little more research before arguing for the checkpoints. According to the Wash times, the NSZ program (checkpoints) “allowed police to bar drivers of vehicles who did not live in Trinidad or have a reason for being there from entering the neighborhood.” I was mistakenly under the impression that they were stopping and questioning, but BARRING definitely crosses a constitutional line and I don’t support that.

Jamie pointed out that the stats didn’t match the time period of the NSZ program. I again mistakenly thought that the checkpoints were in effect from last year up until now. They were actually only used in June and part July of 2008. The stats still support the benefit of the program though; June 2008 was down 40% YOY, July was down 21% YOY.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/11/court-trinidad-barriers-not-legal/