{"article":{"id":230324,"heading":"Fontana PD impound 100 cars at checkpoint\/Polic\u00eda de Fontana confiscan 97 carros en ret\u00e9n","author":"Checkpoint Response","created":"2009-09-16 01:36:32","modified":"2013-11-11 01:00:59","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:00:59","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>This is being reported in the San Bernardino County Sun.\r\n<br><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/ci_13335891\r\n<br><br>\r\nDUI checkpoints were originally designed to deter drunken driving and educate communities about the dangers of thereof. At least, that's what was argued in the courts here in California.\r\n<br><br>\r\nWe know that the police have always wanted to arrogate all power to themselves despite constitutional guarantees of the rights of the individual, such as the right, formerly guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. For such search and\/or seizure to be reasonable, it was necessary to establish probable cause.\r\n<br><br>\r\nSince Michigan v. Sitz, however, in which the Rehnquist court ruled that the checkpoints were \"acceptable\" infringements on the rights guaranteed by the fourth amendment and left it up to the states to determine what requirements they would impose on law enforcement agencies, the people's rights have been continuously rolled back.\r\n<br><br><br><br>\r\n&Eacute;sto se ha reportado en el peri&oacute;dico San Bernardino County Sun.\r\n<br><br>\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/ci_13335891\r\n<br><br>\r\nRetenes, que originalmente ten&iacute;an fin de disuadir a conductores de conducir en estado de embriaguez y para educar comunidades acerca de los peligros del mismo, ahora se usan para despojarles a los inmigrantes de sus carros y cobrarles dinerales para devolv&eacute;rselos.\r\n<br><br>\r\nSabemos que la polic&iacute;a siempre ha querido acapararse de todo poder, independientemente de que algunos poderes pisotean los derechos garantizados por la constituci&oacute;n de los Estados Unidos. Por ejemplo, la cuarta enmienda a la constituci&oacute;n protege el derecho a la seguridad de no ser cateado y de no sufrir la confiscaci&oacute;n de los bienes de uno cuando tales allanamientos y encautaciones no se basen en una causa probable.\r\n<br><br>\r\nPero desde que la Corte Suprema del anti-inmigrante Rehnquist decidi&oacute; que los retenes son una violaci&oacute;n \"aceptable\" del derecho establecido por la cuarta enmienda, y permiti&oacute; que los estados elaboraran sus propios requisitos para llevar tales retenes a cabo, se ha visto una continua retroceso en los derechos del individual.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Once again, the scourge of militarization of our streets and our communities has resulted in nearly 100 cars impounded.\r\n<br><br>\r\nOtra vez, el azote de la militarizaci\u00f3n de nuestras calles y comunidades ha terminado con la encautaci\u00f3n de casi 100 carros.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/09\/230324.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":230464,"heading":"Why is this a bad thing?","article":"I don't see why this is a bad thing, don't you want drunks and drugged drivers of the road?\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":230324,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-09-23 18:19:47","modified":"2009-09-23 18:19:47","fileurl":""},{"id":230469,"heading":"Yes, Fred, there is something wrong with a police state","article":"Hey Fred, if you would have read the article, you might have seen the problem we saw. Here's a quote:\r\n\r\n&quot;Three of the 12 people arrested were driving under the influence and the other nine were taken into custody for outstanding warrants and resisting arrest.&quot;\r\n\r\nSo let's see, of the 3,798 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, 227 were stopped. I wonder how they were selected? It doesn't exactly sound like a &quot;neutral, mathematical formula&quot; was used, as required by law. Sounds a lot more like profiling (by race, class, what have you).\r\n\r\nNow, of the 227 stopped, 121 were issued citations and 97 vehicles were impounded. That's almost half of the vehicles stopped!\r\n\r\nSo, there must've been 97 drunk drivers prevented from harming anyone, right? Wrong. Of the 12 arrests, only 3(!) were for DUI.\r\n\r\nDo the numbers add up to you, Fred? That means that 94 people had their cars stolen and impounded by the state. Some may have been driving on suspended or revoked licenses, but the greater likelihood, Fred, is that most of those folks who are now having to pay extraordinate ransoms for their cars, had no license whatsoever since the law does not allow undocumented immigrants to drive legally. So they're forced by circumstances out of their control to be in a country where their rights are very limited. Then they have to drive old cars (that get profiled) through poor neighborhoods where cops know there are large concentrations of undocumented folks, which is of course where they set the checkpoints.\r\n\r\nHave you been to Fontana? There is not much public transportation there. So the alternatives are very few.\r\n\r\nIf this seems right to you, then you are one of the ones who is ushering in the police state, because the biggest danger, besides the economic damage to the families that have to pay, and the graft and corruption between the tow companies, the cops, and the city councils, is the normalization of police presence on our streets and interference in our lives.\r\n\r\nIf you like police states, then go ahead and keep supporting these checkpoints. I for one am wary of losing my rights. Study the checkpoints and you'll see, they keep rolling back our rights. Just because they target the undocumented and not you doesn't mean that they will stop there. If we don't stand up to them and fight back, where will it end?","author":"Checkpoint response","parent_id":230324,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-09-23 19:25:03","modified":"2009-09-23 19:25:03","fileurl":""},{"id":230481,"heading":"oh, this is rich","article":"&quot;So they're forced by circumstances out of their control....&quot; \r\n\r\nIllegals are here via a gun pointed to their heads, no doubt. ","author":"not under the influence of acne","parent_id":230324,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-09-24 13:59:29","modified":"2009-09-24 13:59:29","fileurl":""}]}