On 5/21/09, a cooperative effort between the Maryland State Police from Barrack E and the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office, resulted in the arrests of 6 alcohol impaired motorists. Additionally, there were 2 arrests for possession of a controlled dangerous substance and 1 arrest for disorderly conduct.
The arrests stemmed from the “Checkpoint Strikeforce” sobriety checkpoint which was conducted on W/B Rt 50 at Woodyard Rd, Wicomico County, MD. The operation was conducted on the evening of May 21, 2009, between 10:00 PM and 0200 AM. During the operation, 470 vehicles were checked. The checkpoint was manned by 14 Maryland State Troopers and 5 Wicomico County Sheriff Deputies.
“CHECKPOINT STRIKEFORCE”
“YOU DRINK AND DRIVE, YOU LOSE”
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Obviously there must have been some reasonable suspicion of these folks or they would not have been stopped. Our law prohibits illegal search and seizure of property.
ReplyDeleteWas anyone hurt? Was any property damaged?
Good job at PREVENTING crime. Now if we could just get the people who are THINKING ABOUT DRINKING AND DRIVING before they ever get into the car.
ReplyDeleteIt should be illegal to THINK about drinking and driving.
This shold be illegal. The only reason they did this was because it was SUs graduation and many of the students go to Secrets for a SU party. Why don't we set up a checkpoint at the CLAM BAKE in Crisfield?
ReplyDeletePlus it was a waste of money!
19 officers and 9 arrested. Do the math. Couldn't they all have had on or more arrests if they were patrolling the streets. All the crime here and they do this. It cost well over $5000 to run this operation. This is a waste of time and money. How do you get arrested for disorderley conduct in a car. Someone mouth off to a cop and get the beat down.
ReplyDeleteWonder how much OT those Sheriff Deputies made working last night. Wicomico is 2 mil in the hole, great way of getting out of it gentlemen.
ReplyDeleteThis is an intrusion into personal lives and probably unconstitutional. We have way to many police with nothing better to do than this. A good place to start cutting the budget is with the police departments.
ReplyDelete9:55 You've heard it before and obviously chose to ignore it: driving isn't a right it's a privilege. And the Supreme Court has already ruled on the legality of sobriety check points.
ReplyDeleteIt's one thing for the police agencies to do checkpoints, but if the judges let everybody off once it gets to court, what good was that?
ReplyDeleteHow many hundreds or thousands of tax dollars are wasted on each case that gets thrown out or the individual gets off with probation only to go out drinking and driving again?
Don't drink and drive and then whine that you got caught! If you weren't drinking and driving, you would have nothing to worry about!
These check points are the most outlandish waste of money I have ever witnessed. They bring 20 cop cars, construction equipment and tie up traffic for a hope of possibly nailing a drunken driver. I would love to know the cost per arrest in these debacles.
ReplyDelete12:17 "I would love to know the cost per arrest..."
ReplyDeleteLook. We pay these guys anyway. Do you actually think we'd get more arrest for the dollar by having these guys just driving around? I don't think so.
And drunk driving is a serious crime. We should sentence drunk drivers to public service as traffic controllers in the middle of busy intersections. Let them worry about whether someone like them is going to be driving the next car...
Tell the family who has lost a loved one to a drunk that it is a waste of time and money!! What a bunch of jerks!
ReplyDeleteHad one of those drunk drivers killed somebody in an accident in Wicomico County then the comments would be why weren't the Police doing more? More of our tax payer money wasted because they were riding around doing nothing when they could have targeted their efforts at stopping this drunk driver. You guys are never happy!
ReplyDeleteI believe in a previous post on here about a pedestrian being killed in Ocean City by a drunk driver everyone whined the police need to do more. Now they do more and everyone whines. Guess some people will never be pleased, so forget about em and let them get a finger workout while whining through a keyboard
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU MSP and WCSO for getting these people off the road!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThink of the person you love most in this world. Now think of that person dead in pile of twisted metal caused by a drunk driver and tell me again how big a waste this is?
ReplyDeleteThese check points are the most outlandish waste of money I have ever witnessed. They bring 20 cop cars, construction equipment and tie up traffic for a hope of possibly nailing a drunken driver. I would love to know the cost per arrest in these debacles.