Social Welfare Policy Assignment
David Garrett
Social Welfare Policy
11/23/14
#1 http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol.drivingissues/1103163004.html
DWI/DUI Sobriety Road Blocks or Check Points
-Michigan Supreme Court found sobriety checkpoints to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
-Split decision, US Supreme Court reversed the Michigan Court. Chief Justice Rehnquist acknowledge that roadblocks do violate the Constitution right, but went onto say they are necessary in order to reduce drunk driving. He argued that the end justifies the mean.
-US Supreme Court has made the DUI exemption to the Constitution yet 11 states have found that sobriety checkpoints violate their own states constitution.
-Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) strongly promotes them, implies that sobriety roadblocks are legal throughout the entire United States without exception. *June 14, 1990 US Supreme Court upheld the use of checkpoints to detect and and deter impaired drivers.
-MADD dismisses those who question the use of checkpoints are those who drink and drive frequently are concerned about being caught.
-Many arguments both for an against the use of checkpoint to reduce drunk driving.
-Many Law Enforcement officials and researchers believe that roving patrols are much more effective
-Dissenting Justice Brennan emphasized that the Constitution does not provide exceptions; “That stopping every car might make it easier to prevent drunk driving is an insufficient justification for abandoning the requirements of individualized suspicion” dissenting Justice Brennan insisted.
Written and edited by:
Prof. David J Hanson Ph.D
Sociology Department
State University of New York
Potsdam, NY 13676
#2 http://www.wfmj.com/story/25939167/advance-notice Advance Notice of OVI Checkpoints Mandatory
Posted: July 3, 2014 7:24pm
By: Janet Rogers
Youngstown, Ohio
-Law enforcement agencies are required to announce the date, time, and location of a DUI checkpoint.
-5 days prior Law Enforcement notifies the media
Social Welfare Policy
11/23/14
#1 http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol.drivingissues/1103163004.html
DWI/DUI Sobriety Road Blocks or Check Points
-Michigan Supreme Court found sobriety checkpoints to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
-Split decision, US Supreme Court reversed the Michigan Court. Chief Justice Rehnquist acknowledge that roadblocks do violate the Constitution right, but went onto say they are necessary in order to reduce drunk driving. He argued that the end justifies the mean.
-US Supreme Court has made the DUI exemption to the Constitution yet 11 states have found that sobriety checkpoints violate their own states constitution.
-Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) strongly promotes them, implies that sobriety roadblocks are legal throughout the entire United States without exception. *June 14, 1990 US Supreme Court upheld the use of checkpoints to detect and and deter impaired drivers.
-MADD dismisses those who question the use of checkpoints are those who drink and drive frequently are concerned about being caught.
-Many arguments both for an against the use of checkpoint to reduce drunk driving.
-Many Law Enforcement officials and researchers believe that roving patrols are much more effective
-Dissenting Justice Brennan emphasized that the Constitution does not provide exceptions; “That stopping every car might make it easier to prevent drunk driving is an insufficient justification for abandoning the requirements of individualized suspicion” dissenting Justice Brennan insisted.
Written and edited by:
Prof. David J Hanson Ph.D
Sociology Department
State University of New York
Potsdam, NY 13676
#2 http://www.wfmj.com/story/25939167/advance-notice Advance Notice of OVI Checkpoints Mandatory
Posted: July 3, 2014 7:24pm
By: Janet Rogers
Youngstown, Ohio
-Law enforcement agencies are required to announce the date, time, and location of a DUI checkpoint.
-5 days prior Law Enforcement notifies the media