This page contains information about DUI checkpoints in 2011. If you are looking for Pennsylvania DUI checkpoints for Labor Day 2012, click here. CHECK BACK HERE FOR SUNDAY NIGHT ROADBLOCKS FROM SATURDAY NIGHT There is a DUI roadblock at Nottingham Fire Department, 3420 Street Road, Bensalem, Pa 19020 Pittsburgh DUI roadblock spotted near or…
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Bad Technology and Bad Laws Lead to False DUI Arrests
DUI are cases are very complex. Most of the time, the only evidence is the opinion of a bias police officer and a reading from a blood or breath test. Unfortunately, this opinion evidence coupled with bad technology leads to far too many false DUI arrests. Here as an excellent editorial on the causes for…
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New DUI Ads Show Misplaced Priorities
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has rolled out a sparkling new ad campaign which you will surely be bombarded with over Pennsylvania’s airways. The ad campaign costs over $14 million dollars with millions more supporting the “crackdowns” all over the country. Additionally, the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has provided the state police and and…
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PA DUI Checkpoints for the Holiday Weekend
This weekend as Americans celebrate our independence and liberty, Pennsylvania State Police is planning on infringing on your rights through DUI checkpoints. While the constitution protects us from unreasonable search and seizure, DUI checkpoints violate those rights who many people gave their lives for. This holiday weekend, police will be setting up DUI checkpoints on…
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Budget Cuts Could Reduce PA DUI Checkpoints
The U.S. Department of Transportation has cut its funding for Pennsylvania DUI programs by nearly 1/3 this year which could reduce the number of roving patrols and DUI checkpoints in PA. Police: Budget cuts could imperil DUI checkpoint program The U.S. Department of Transportation cut its funding of Pennsylvania drunken-driving enforcement programs by a third…
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Apple Agrees to Remove DUI Checkpoint Apps
Apple has agreed to remove apps that alert people to the location of DUI checkpoints. As we have written before, a group of four senators wrote letters to Apple, RIM and Google requesting the censorship of apps that can be used to alert users about DUI checkpoints. RIM removed two popular apps previously and Apple’s…
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Police Break Car Window at DUI Checkpoint
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18,…
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Google App Helps Drivers Avoid DUI Checkpoints
There seems to be an app for almost everything nowadays. Recently, a DUI checkpoint evasion app, which informs users of the locations of DUI checkpoints, has caught the ire of some senators who are pushing to have them removed. Four senators, Harry Reid (D-NV), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Tom Udall…
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Hanover PA DUI Checkpoint Results
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is one of the busiest traveling days of the year and according to the police and the media, it is also notorious for an increased number of DUIs, or so they claim. Pennsylvania state and local police conducted a huge DUI operation this past weekend. So what were the results? At…
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PA Drivers Beware of DUI Checkpoints this Weekend
Pennsylvania Police to ramp up “DUI enforcement” this Holiday Weekend This holiday weekend Pennsylvania state and municipal police will conduct an increased number of DUI checkpoints and roving patrols. Here is an update from a local newspaper: Police plan DUI enforcement for Thanksgiving weekend York, PA – Two sobriety checkpoints are planned for York County…
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