This is hardly a ringing endorsement of their use. Justice Thomas doubts constitutional legitimacy of roadblocks The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals went so far as to hold “This Court has long held that license checks, sobriety checkpoints, and roadblocks are not intrinsically unconstitutional. With that in mind, you can see why courts eye their propriety with such exacting standards. 2004) These checkpoints are warrant-less and suspicion-less stops of every citizen who happens to enter the designated checkpoint area. The stops are considered “seizures” under the Fourth Amendment. This has serious Fourth Amendment implications. Traffic safety checkpoints are investigative stops based on absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing. Below is a breakdown of the results.”Īre these checkpoints legal? You can find significant litigation over their use.
Mobile police made 10 arrests, totaling two felony charges and 24 misdemeanor charges. The results as published on the City of Mobile Police Department website note: “There were 96 tickets issued and 12 vehicles towed. There we two checkpoints conducted this week. Yet now in 2017, we seen renewed efforts by the city’s new chief of police to re-employ the traffic safety checkpoints. “We are not using them in any other matter that doesn’t make this the safest city in America.”Īnd that was the position Chief James Barber took as well as he promised to “ scale back” the use of traffic safety checkpoints.
Colby Cooper, the mayor’s then chief of staff noted in 2014, “Checkpoints are a tool in the tool box of policing…The mayor doesn’t want to take off the table the tools our police force needs to make Mobile the safest city in the future…We rely on police to use them judiciously,” Cooper said. (Michael eliminating the practice, scaled back on traffic safety checkpoints to areas of necessity in line with the administration’s “ hot-spot” policing efforts. Stimpson will be taking over the mayor’s office on Nov. Stimpson also said that he didn’t believe they were a solution to the “public safety problem.” Stimpson after his election but before his swearing in noted in August 2013: “ Unless I’m convinced otherwise by those on the ground, then that’s where I stand.” Stimpson while Mobile Mayor Sam Jones, left, and Mayor-Elect Sandy Stimpson speak to reporters before a working-lunch session at Government Plaza on Aug. Mayoral candidate Sandy Stimpson campaigned against the practice and said that the traffic safety checkpoints were ineffective. The issue is a relevant again as the City of Mobile Police Department has renewed its roadblock efforts that were controversial under the Sam Jones administration. A former client reached out to me this week asking me how traffic safety checkpoints, or “roadblocks” are constitutional.
0 kommentar(er)
