RT
July 1, 2013
Can police officers trick automobile drivers with bogus traffic stops? Cops
in a small Ohio town seem to think so, and now they’re under attack for trying
to sweep the city of drugs using a creative little loophole.
The Mayfield Heights, Ohio Police Department is under fire after the city
recently decided to establish a “drug checkpoint” on Interstate 271. Randomly
stopping cars and combing them for contraband is illegal, though, so law
enforcement has been using the next best thing: fake checkpoints.
Cops in the Cleveland suburb of only 19,000 have been placing warning signs
ahead of a bogus stop and then monitoring the behavior of drivers. If any cars
demonstrate suspicious activity after being alerted of the phony roadblock,
police say that’s enough to stop and search them.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
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