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Yadkinville "license checks" good use, or waste of, taxpayer $?

yadkindogs

Posted 9:01 pm, 04/04/2017

valid point. just think there is better use of time/money/resources than 4 squad cars stopping maybe 1 car an hour to see papers. very gestapo. "vair are yer papirs?..." not a legitimate use of law enforcement. If they want to 'check licenses' then do a legitimate traffic stop. don't harass the 99% of people in yadkinville who don't bother to break the laws.

Robeson

Posted 6:06 pm, 03/30/2017

At least they are working......and not sitting in the office playing cop.

yadkindogs

Posted 1:07 am, 03/29/2017

I wonder if the 3 or 4 officer's time could be better used actually patrolling the town on weeknights, or sitting in speed traps rather than having (probably every) on-duty officer obstructing traffic, all concentrated in one location, in the off chance they catch someone with an expired license or whatever it is the chief is having them try to find?

I understand it is dangerous to be in that profession and they are following orders. But I question the sanity and intelligence of those orders and would like to know the actual statistics of the time & taxpayer money used in those stings, vs the manpower hours and taxpayer money used in routine patrolling and catching speeders and aggressive drivers.

So I am putting this out there on a community forum and challenge the Chief to provide justification these "license checks" are actually a good use of patrolman time and taxpayer $$$$. And if they are indeed a good use, then why aren't we implementing them in more efficient ways to increase success rates?

It just seems that the Chief orders "license checks" just to break the routine which is a poor reason to stop routine patrolling.

And by the way, I wonder if Yadkinville can afford being dragged into a lawsuit over these "license checks" because according to the Supreme Court... "except in those situations in which there is at least articulable and reasonable suspicion that a motorist is unlicensed or that an automobile is not registered, or that either the vehicle or an occupant is otherwise subject to seizure for violation of law, stopping an automobile and detaining the driver in order to check his driver's license and the registration of the automobile are unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment." (440 U.S. at 663 (quoting Marshall v. Barlow's, Inc., 436 U.S. 307,312 (1978) (quoting Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U.S. 523, 528 (1967))).)

Besides all that, speeding involves an increased risk of property damage, injury, or loss of life and should always be a constant priority over stopping all traffic just to "check licenses". And if "checking licenses" is such a top priority, why not do it on a MAIN road instead of a side street? If you are going to do it, do it right and maximize your fishing. Why not require scanning of a license before you pump gas to enable the pump? Why not "check licenses" on the entrance ramps to 421? Why not require automobile manufacturers to install devices to scan licenses before the ignition can work? And also why don't we patrol or do speed traps on 421 at all? Winston PD patrols 40, and High Point PD patrols 73 so I fail to see why in all the time I've lived here, we don't bother to patrol our little section of 421.

Road blocks to "check licenses" are an affront to the 99% of the town's population, and frankly an abuse of power. There are no valid reasons why they should continue. With so much animosity toward law enforcement officers out there now, you would think the Chief would want to avoid adding to that sentiment by forcing residents to stop and produce paperwork when odds are 1000:1 you just impacted, intimidated, and delayed a completely compliant and law-abiding taxpayer.

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