That just goes to show you on how stupid that law really is. it needs to be changed, ANYONE driving over the legal limit should be delt with. there should be NO law that says that they have to announce where a DUI checkpoint is at.
This App should have never been allowed on the store in the first place. anyone driving over the legal limit should not get a heads up on DUI check points. i have had so many friends and family members die due to a drunk driver. i stand with the government, pull these Apps.
a DUI check point is there for a reason, announcing it only goes against why its done in the first place. People can say its censorship, i call bull crap on them this is not censorship. its called defeating the whole purpose of a DUI checkpoint.
Yet another that doesn't get it about the Constitution.
A checkpoint comes real close to being search without a warrant, to the point that it can come down to the details of how it's implemented.
Freedom is more important than the lives of everyone who has ever died for it, whether by chosen service or merely as a consequence of the irresponsible or criminal acts of others. It's more important than you, me, and the lives of everyone that both of us care about. _All_ death is senseless to the survivors, even death of natural causes. So don't give me tragedy stories, because loss is part of living, and attempts to reduce loss by taking away freedom just reduce the value of living instead.
Moreover, denying any information that might impact sober people's legitimate activities comes real close to a presumption of guilt.
Pre-emptive measures of any sort completely ignore the requirement to establish probable cause first. They're cheapskate alternatives to a proper solution, like more highway cops actually driving and looking for erratic drivers. They're like the foolishness of groping or scanning little kids and grandmothers in the airport to avoid being perceived as profiling young middle eastern men. Profile the heck out of any group that's got a big enough statistic; but more than that, teach these idiots at TSA (and the highway patrol, if the shoe fits) to profile _behavior_.
For example, it ought to be possible to come up with machine readable license plates (or transponders or something); fixed sites that track should be very rare and exceptional, but every police car ought to be able to be aware instantly of every vehicle nearby and the driving record of each driver associated with that vehicle, and able to pick out the ones that have problem histories, as well as any vehicles reported stolen. Vehicle location data should simply not be retained for more than a few days unless there's an arrest, and retrieval during that limited time should never be done with the data without a warrant. That's nothing that a lot more cops just using their eyes to see what anyone can see couldn't do.
Yes, it's possible for someone unable to drive safely to still be able to use an app. So what? I'm quite satisfied that on average, those that choose to be informed are likelier to be sane and sober than those that don't; and those that would be an exception to that would be an active danger to others whether or not a checkpoint tracking app existed.
May all the gremlins of the universe haunt anyone so obsessed with safety and security that they're willing to give up freedom for it.
Also, please note that these traffic apps aren't necessarily primarily about evading DUI checkpoints! With trapster for instance, people can report all sorts of road hazards, not just legitimate law enforcement activities. Something like that is really no different than a CB radio (because the reports come from other drivers or information that's publically available anyway) except that it's got a database behind it, a map in front of it, and no particular range limit.
What we have here is simply pompous ass senators acting like they were privileged Roman senators rather than public servants under a Constitution, and posturing for the masses; it's all posturing and power to them, usually at taxpayer expense.
I think a better case might be made that traffic apps of any sort, or even GPS units for cars, will undoubtedly get a few innocent people killed in accidents caused by _distracted_ drivers. But like all such claims, that neglects to consider time and possibly lives that might be saved by such tools, and probably neglects that most of those that use them will be using them safely and responsibly.
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