Reason.com: Ohio Cops Use Fake Drug Checkpoint to Dodge Fourth Amendment by Jacob Sullum:<\/p>\n
In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that random vehicle checkpoints aimed at finding illegal drugs violate the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. That is why police in Mayfield Heights, a Cleveland suburb, do not have a drug checkpoint. Instead they have the next best thing: a fake drug checkpoint. The Associated Press reports that Mayfield Heights police “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.” None of that was true, but the cops hoped the signs would cause drivers carrying drugs to make conspicuous attempts to avoid the nonexistent checkpoint, thereby providing reasonable suspicion for a stop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But, it doesn’t provide reasonable suspicion. These guys think they’re the first to think of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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