Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints

[The Straight Story]

Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they're not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs.

So they're trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints.

Police recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead.

There was no such checkpoint, just police officers waiting to see if any drivers would react suspiciously after seeing the signs.

The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports (http://bit.ly/12tIqGq) that a civil rights group and at least one person pulled over by police are questioning the tactic.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ohio-police-department-fake-drug-checkpoints-19537251#.UdBZQj54ZrU

[think]

1. That's the spirit.... /nt

[Half-Century Man]

2. I'm torn

Part of me want to applaud the LEOs for creativity. Part of me wants to boo the LEOs for reimagining profiling.

[onethatcares]

3. hmmmmm,

what they should do is just post a big sign over the highway saying, "Piss test ahead. Lose your job if you refuse"

That's been accepted as legal and constitutional for the past 20 years.

[Orrex]

4. Somebody should hang a sign that says "free donuts ahead"

That way they'll be able to identify undercover cops and unmarked police cars.