DUI Checkpoint advice.........Possibility for general police stops in Indiana?

[jblomenberg16]

If you can't avoid a checkpoint, you aren't doing it right
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Or just naïve, like me.

 

[Denny347]

If you can't avoid a checkpoint, you aren't doing it right
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Or are hypnotized by all the flashing red and blue lights, drawn to them like moths to a flame.

 

[pitbulld45]

I have been through multiple check points. Never had a problem.

 

[VUPDblue]

The running joke with me when working them is that failure to avoid the damn thing should be the beginning of PC.

 

[VUPDblue]

Here is a point I don't recall seeing posted on here before; Police, fire, EMS etc... vehicles are not exempt from checkpoints. If they end up as part of the random selection process then they must go through just like everyone else.

 

[Compatriot G]

The last time I went through a DUI checkpoint was about 20 years ago. I believe I surprised the state trooper when he asked what I was doing out "so late"(it was 12;30 a.m.). I told him I was going to get some beer(which I was). That answer completely threw him off. He started stammering after I answered. He then asked if I had been drinking. I told him it had been three or four hours since I had last drank one of two beers. He still seemed a bit "off his game" and waved me on through the check point. After I bought some beer, I went back to the check point. I held up my twelve-pack as I approached. The same trooper saw it and just waved me through.

 

[VUPDblue]

I have seen some very interesting things at checkpoints

 

[chipbennett]

This is the part that pisses me off. You are an adult doing nothing wrong. That is all they need to know. What you are doing out at 'this hour' is none of their damn business. Perhaps the better question is "why are they out here harassing citizens at this hour?"

I hand them my drivers license and then say, am I free to go. It's work the last 5 times for me so fair.

I personally think that such checkpoints are ridiculous and unconstitutional, but I'm also not likely to be a jerk about it. Depending on my mood, though, a question like "what are you doing out at this hour?" might just push the wrong buttons. My answer might be "being stopped from going about my lawful actions by a detention that lacks even a modicum of reasonable, articulable suspicion. Am I free to go?"

Also: would turning on the dome light prevent the need for use of the million foot-candle torches in the face?

 

[ghuns]

Also: would turning on the dome light prevent the need for use of the million foot-candle torches in the face?

Nah, part of their game. But I've dreamed about shining my little ZebraLight right back at 'em. Never had the guts to try it. Figured it would end end with me screaming, DON'T TASE ME BRO!

 

[HoughMade]

Nah, part of their game. But I've dreamed about shining my little ZebraLight right back at 'em....

One thing you have to promise us if you ever do that.....video.

 

[pitbulld45]

Here is a point I don't recall seeing posted on here before; Police, fire, EMS etc... vehicles are not exempt from checkpoints. If they end up as part of the random selection process then they must go through just like everyone else.

I was stopped on duty and in uniform. Pulled over and checked by a trooper.

 

[KittySlayer]

4. Don't talk. Don't say anything. Shut your baconhole. Don't play 20 questions or any cop game. All their games involve you talking, don't...

So no words at all? Is there a balance between being a rude jerk and not playing twenty questions?

As the officer asks the first question do you reply "I prefer not to answer any questions sir" or do you just sit there mute with your license and registration in your hand?

 

[nra4ever]

There is a YouTube video on how to hang all your info on the outside of your windows so you don't have to roll it down and speak with officers.

Let me me look for it again

http://youtu.be/YqEXTVe7MCQ

 

[KG1]

I was stopped on duty and in uniform. Pulled over and checked by a trooper.

Not smart enough to avoid the checkpoint huh?

 

[VUPDblue]

I ask for license and registration and anything after that is simply small talk

 

[VUPDblue]

There is a YouTube video on how to hang all your info on the outside if you windows so you don't have to roll it down and speak with officers.

Let me me look for it again

That doesn't fly in every state

 

[jdmack79]

I have seen some very interesting things at checkpoints

How about a story or two?

 

[DRob]

If you can't avoid a checkpoint, you aren't doing it right
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I prefer to think if you NEED to avoid a checkpoint, you aren't doing it right!

 

[pitbulld45]

Not smart enough to avoid the checkpoint huh?

That about sums it up. I was really on my way to a non emergency call and that was shortest route.

 

[nra4ever]

Found the video at the blaze. http://youtu.be/YqEXTVe7MCQ

this is fool proof if you follow the instructions on the video