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Title: July 4th DWI policy provides backup plan (ultimate loss of civil rights)
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Forth Worth Star-Telegram
URL Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/738865.html
Published: Jul 3, 2008
Author: MELODY McDONALD and AMAN BATHEJA
Post Date: 2008-07-03 10:45:50 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 188
Comments: 11
FORT WORTH — If you insist on drinking and driving this holiday weekend, be prepared to roll up your sleeve. At least 21 Tarrant County law enforcement agencies are participating in a Fourth of July "No Refusal" program that will allow authorities to draw blood from suspected drunken drivers who refuse Breathalyzer tests. "We have a DWI epidemic in this state, and Tarrant County is no exception," prosecutor Richard Alpert said Wednesday at a news conference, where he was flanked by men in blue from the 21 departments. "Our office prosecutes at least 6,000 DWI cases a year, and we are constantly looking for new ways and new legal efforts to aid our law enforcement." Although the Fort Worth and Dalworthington Gardens police departments now routinely obtain search warrants and draw blood from suspected drunken drivers who refuse Breathalyzer tests, this is the first time that so many of Tarrant County’s law enforcement agencies have joined to curtail drunken driving. "And it is not just Tarrant County," Alpert said. "We have agencies all over the state. Every surrounding county — Collin County, Dallas County, Denton County — are involved in the same program we are doing. Across the state, from Galveston to El Paso, there are agencies and district attorneys’ offices who are using search warrants to draw blood in DWI cases." Alpert said some agencies will begin their campaigns today, while others will begin over the holiday weekend. The agencies will share resources to ensure that enough officers are on duty to make arrests, judges to sign the search warrants and medically trained personnel to draw blood. For example, Sansom Park police will have a mobile unit in a parking lot along Jacksboro Highway, where blood will be drawn and a judge will sign warrants. Alpert added that Watauga police found additional paramedics to help draw blood and that in cities such as Kennedale and Azle fire department paramedics will help draw blood. Alpert said he hopes that the program will act as a deterrent, persuading people not to drink and drive because they know officers will conduct sobriety tests with or without drivers’ consent. "We will have that evidence," Alpert said. "We will get it and use it against them. 34;.34;.34;. People need to understand that they can enjoy the Fourth of July weekend and they can survive it. For those that don’t get our message, they need to understand that they will be found and held accountable." No refusal How the campaign will work: If you are stopped and suspected of driving while intoxicated, most police officers will ask you to consent to a Breathalyzer test. Dalworthington Gardens, however, has an "all blood all the time" protocol, meaning that officers will either ask you to voluntarily consent to have blood drawn or get a search warrant. If a suspect refuses to take a breath test or give blood, the officer will seek a search warrant from a magistrate or judge to allow blood to be drawn. Trained medical professionals will then draw the suspect’s blood. The blood will be tested to determine the suspect’s blood-alcohol concentration. In Texas, it is illegal for drivers to have a blood-alcohol level above 0.08. Participating agencies The agencies participating in the program include police departments in Azle, Arlington, Bedford, Burleson, Dalworthington Gardens, Euless, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Hurst, Kennedale, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Watauga, Westover Hills and Westworth Village, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Department, and Department of Public Safety officers from Southlake and Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Well if they're lucky, maybe they'll find at least one out there with the type of blood that causes those around them to become violently ill when exposed to the fumes emitted. It's those damn aliens ya know... FUMES AT HOSPITAL BAFFLE OFFICIALS Analysis of a toxic death - dying patient in emergency room releases toxic fumes
If you aren't drinking, and have a day to waste, I'd make him do just that.
HA! In MA, we have a new sobriety checkpoint system, (Roadblocks were deemed illegal by the State SC, hence the new nomenclature), a fleet of remodelled buses ready to be filled with offenders, with cops, handcuffs and holding cells and can be moved as desired to certain points. Spookier and spookier, and all brought to you with the willing consent of the American people in their divine and secular search for a risk free society. Liberty, freedom are so passe, and Twentieth Century, dontcha think. This is our new credo: Safety uber alles!
Submit citizen. Violence, or the thought of violence, never solved anything. Vote Muldoon!
Now THAT'S scary, those buses only need Zyklon-B gas to deal with stubborn American's.
I'd imagine that it ever comes down to that people would be less likely to stop at those "checkpoints" and would simply step on the accelerator and take out as many as they can before they themselves are taken out.
This holiday has become such a joke. If the Founders could have seen what we would have become they would have sent the king an apology and went back to the plantations.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
If that was the case then weapons development never would have progressed beyond the club or stone knife.
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
No doubt.
If that was the case then weapons development never would have progressed beyond the club or stone knife. At least someone has been reading my tag line. I always found it odd in Highschool how they would bring in a police officer to speak on such matters. Only in America could a person carrying two firearms, mace, a taser, hand cuffs, and a baton give a lecture on the benifits of pacifism.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
You know, if I could have remembered where I picked that up I would have given you credit for it. Vodka does wonders for the memory!
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price." Vir Cotto, Babylon 5
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
If a suspect refuses to take a breath test or give blood, the officer will seek a search warrant from a magistrate or judge to allow blood to be drawn.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
#4. To: swarthyguy (#3)
#5. To: swarthyguy (#3)
In MA, we have a new sobriety checkpoint system, (Roadblocks were deemed illegal by the State SC, hence the new nomenclature), a fleet of remodelled buses ready to be filled with offenders, with cops, handcuffs and holding cells and can be moved as desired to certain points.
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
Now THAT'S scary, those buses only need Zyklon-B gas to deal with stubborn American's.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#7. To: X-15 (#0)
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
Violence, or the thought of violence, never solved anything.
#9. To: orangedog, lodwick, christine, jethro tull, dakmar (#7)
This holiday has become such a joke. If the Founders could have seen what we would have become they would have sent the king an apology and went back to the plantations.
#10. To: orangedog (#8)
Violence, or the thought of violence, never solved anything.
#11. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#10)
At least someone has been reading my tag line.
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