Quote:It doesn't make life harder, it's just an incremental erosion of due process. For example rolling my window down isn't a big deal to me, but if someone for whatever reason refuses the officer has to accept that unless they have probably cause. Clearly when the young man in the video said no I don't want to roll it down anymore the officer became agitated and essentially said screw your rights do what I said because I am the law. I get it we don't train officers to be guardians of individual rights (not saying we should) they're trained to find criminals and arrest them.


Now take it to the next level with policies like stop and frisk or the stingray operations I have a bigger problem with those, but those policies are set in place because in large we the public accept the incremental erosion of due process with activities like DUI checkpoints.

Ever heard of VIPR? Random stop and search operations of semi trucks carried out by the TSA (lol)? There was talk of extending that to random stop and search operations of noncommercial vehicles. I don't think anything came off that, thankfully, but we are still subjected to unconstitutional Border Patrol interior checkpoints that include warrantless searches throughout the southwest.

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