BALTIMORE (WJZ) — State police say there’s a new way drunk drivers are getting around their DUI checkpoints. They download detours on their cell phones. Now the state wants to keep the software away from drivers.
Gigi Barnett has more.
Smart phone technology can be a drivers dream. It has GPS features for directions and if there’s trouble, cell phones have quick-dial emergency buttons.
But now, Google and Apple have a cell phone software that pinpoints exactly where police have set up DUI checkpoints. And Maryland’s Attorney General, Doug Gansler, wants it off the market.
“It’s much like giving a robber a key and the alarm pad code to go rob a bank on a map. It’s just not appropriate, it doesn’t help society and people die as a result,” he said.
State police agree; they want the app nixed, too.
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2 comments:
Take away freedom of the press and expression....hold information from the public.
The real drunks probably couldn't get the app to work when they need it. The ones that can get it to work will use it to avoid a nuisance.
If the police would make their checkpoints more moblie, the information would be stale by the time the drunk got it anyway....but that would take actual work!
If you are legally allowed to see the checkpoint ahead and then turn around to avoid it (the police use this reasoning to rationalize that the Nazi checkpoints are "voluntary"), then whats the problem?
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