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Comments :: Latest DWI crackdown nets 729 arrests

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That's how I want my Tax dollars spent !

Get them OFF our roads !!

BIG THANK YOU TO POLICE .. WAY TO GO !

As annoying as they are nighttime checkpoints/license checks are just as legal as daytime checks. To me though it just smells like entrapment when they set one up just down the road from a club or bar. I haven't had anything to drink in over 15 years so it doesn't bother me to pass through them... nothing to hide... just saying.

So to All of you that say that a checkpoint is an infringment of your rights, I would like you to return back to when you first got your license and that little tiny handbook you were given. Then When you signed that piece of paper right before you got your picture taken, you agreed to comply with the the laws of the state. If you go back through that handbook, IT READS clearly that the state will allow Law Enforcement Agencies to set up road blocks and check points. There for all of you that state the checkpoints are against your rights.....well you signed "your rights" away on that one. Plus Case Law allows checkpoints: State v. Veazey,  N.C. App.  , 689 S.E.2d 530, 533–34 (2009) (Veazey II)

Talking about rights???? How about having the right to drive safely and not having to worry if the person around you is drunk or ????? If you don't have anything to hide then why do you care if they stop you?

641 fugitives were also arrested in the campaign, and 44 stolen vehicles were recovered.

Good grief! Sounds like they need to do this more often!

Kudos to the cops! You say "unconstitutional"; infringing on your rights? i think not. I've seen a dead child on a highway amidst empty beer cans and liquor bottles in the middle of a night. Have you? What about that child's rights?. law enforcement is an evil necessity and a driver's license is a PRIVILEDGE, not a right. No, i did not cause the crash mentioned. That person died too.

Names....maybe if names were included, it would have an impact.

Who knows how many lives may have been saved as a result. Checking stations are 100% illegal...regardless of what your opinion is of them.

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