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MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio—Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they’re not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs.
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So they’re trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints.
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Police in the city of 19,000 recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be prepared to stop and that there was a drug-sniffing police dog in use.
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There was no such checkpoint, just police officers waiting to see if any drivers would react suspiciously after seeing the signs.
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Bill Peters, one of the four drivers pulled over as a result of the fake checkpoint, said he wonders if he was targeted because he has long, unkempt hair.
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Peters, of Medina, said he was driving on the interstate when he missed his exit. He pulled over to check his phone for directions, then pulled back onto the freeway when his phone disconnected from the charger, causing him to pull over again to reconnect it, he said.
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Soon after returning to the freeway, police pulled him over.
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Peters said the officer asked him what kind of drugs he had in the car, saying it would be much easier to confess before other officers and a drug-sniffing dog arrived. Peters insisted he had no drugs. As promised, other officers and the dog were summoned, and Peters agreed to allow his car to be searched.
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No drugs were found.
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"The last time I checked, it is not against the law to pull over to the side of the road to check directions," said Peters, who added that the officer who stopped him commended him for being safety conscious.
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"I see what they're doing, but I think it's kind of dangerous," Peters said. "It's one thing to do this on a 25 mph road; it's another on a busy interstate. I think it's a violation to just be pulled over and searched."
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This saddens me that OHIO would be the one to possibly initiate this tactic by subverting our liberties thinking they MIGHT catch someone with drugs. Violating citizens rights in the process, this is not tapping someone on the left shoulder while you are standing on the right side of them to fake them out. We are talking about an overt action to violate an individuals right to privacy. Maybe they are taking lessons for the NSA, I don't know. But I do know it isn't right.
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MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio—Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they’re not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs.
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So they’re trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints.
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Police in the city of 19,000 recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be prepared to stop and that there was a drug-sniffing police dog in use.
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There was no such checkpoint, just police officers waiting to see if any drivers would react suspiciously after seeing the signs.
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Bill Peters, one of the four drivers pulled over as a result of the fake checkpoint, said he wonders if he was targeted because he has long, unkempt hair.
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Peters, of Medina, said he was driving on the interstate when he missed his exit. He pulled over to check his phone for directions, then pulled back onto the freeway when his phone disconnected from the charger, causing him to pull over again to reconnect it, he said.
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Soon after returning to the freeway, police pulled him over.
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Peters said the officer asked him what kind of drugs he had in the car, saying it would be much easier to confess before other officers and a drug-sniffing dog arrived. Peters insisted he had no drugs. As promised, other officers and the dog were summoned, and Peters agreed to allow his car to be searched.
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No drugs were found.
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"The last time I checked, it is not against the law to pull over to the side of the road to check directions," said Peters, who added that the officer who stopped him commended him for being safety conscious.
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"I see what they're doing, but I think it's kind of dangerous," Peters said. "It's one thing to do this on a 25 mph road; it's another on a busy interstate. I think it's a violation to just be pulled over and searched."
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This saddens me that OHIO would be the one to possibly initiate this tactic by subverting our liberties thinking they MIGHT catch someone with drugs. Violating citizens rights in the process, this is not tapping someone on the left shoulder while you are standing on the right side of them to fake them out. We are talking about an overt action to violate an individuals right to privacy. Maybe they are taking lessons for the NSA, I don't know. But I do know it isn't right.
