Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_police_dui_blood
"When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he’ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver’s arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.
"I was looking at people’s arms and hands, thinking, ‘I could draw from that,’" Dowell said.
It’s all part of training he and a select cadre of officers in Idaho and Texas have received in recent months to draw blood from those suspected of drunken or drugged driving. The FEDERAL program’s aim is to determine if blood draws by cops can be an effective tool against drunk drivers and aid in their prosecution."
So the Feds are collecting DNA, great just great.
It will keep a lot of innocent people out of jail, and put a lot of guilty people in.
makes me feel a hell of a lot safer while driving
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I do not believe they have the rights to do that without your permission.
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It will keep a lot of innocent people out of jail, and put a lot of guilty people in.
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Kinda scares me..seeing how I hate my blood drawn..and I’m scared of needles..
But I guess it’s for the best?
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From granny "I do not believe they have the rights to do that without your permission." Wrong, it’s called implied consent. Once you accept a driver’s license you automatically give consent. Taking blood is much more accurate. Back in the day when I did this, taking blood was the only was we did it. It works better.
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First, the Feds have been collecting blood samples for years, ever since HIV was first found out about so quit whining… what was that? like 1981?
Second, the only reason they would ever draw your blood for a sample to test for DUI is IF you had already DECLINED a test by any other means, AND failed roadside sobriety tests, in ehich case you have already given them probable cause to suspect you for DUI in the first place….
The moral of this story, is don’t go out of your way to give them a reason to harass you and they’ll leave you be…
Fool around and act up and drink too much, then just keep it to youself. Go out tempting fate long enough youre gonna get bit..
or is that too simple and basic for you to get a grip on?
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I think they need to stick to the breath Machine that’s what it was made for and stop making excuse like pretending the guy is suspected of being drunk just so the officer can get a blood draw done. when most of the time will be he knows its nothing to do with the dui. Because the officers will abuse this privilege to the fullest capacity. If he is suspected of something else then that’s different. But dui is dui
next thing you will hear about is they will be making it monitory to stick a micro Scope up your A** just for being pulled over. To detect how much paper you used in a 24hr period. then make a felony charge out of it if there not satisfy with the results. Don’t think this wont happen because its coming soon to Your area in the next decade watch and see. If its not entirly the same it will be pretty close. watch and see. by 2015 or less.
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I think this is great. I’m a police officer in Illinois and our state law says that any person involved in an accident where death or great bodily harm is caused, then the police automatically have a right to request blood/urine samples from the suspected driver and that doctors at a local hospital are REQUIRED to draw blood from the suspect.
Semi-recently, a drunk driver hit a vehicle and killed several people within the vehicle. The cops took the drunk driver to the local hospital where the ER staff refused to draw blood becuase they thought it was a violation of their hipocratic oath (as if the drawing of blood to prove he was drunk would help convict him-do him harm?!?!).
I’m glad that cops in some states can do it themselves now.
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<— police officer
Some police officers love to have power over people. If they don’t get enough of this power feeling with the real criminal, they will push the envelope with ordinary people. A long time ago I was sexually molested when I was a minor. I ran from a cop and even though I broke no law nor was I arrested I was forcibly frisked. During the frisk he felt that he had the right to put his hand down my pants and rake his fingers across the bottom of my testicles. He was hoping I would flinch making it okay in his mind to hit me with his baton. I was just lucky that I was to scared to move. For over 40 years I kept this to myself. When I did talk about it, it was brought to my attention, the reason the police officer (after he frisked me) kept asking me how old I was, was simply because he then knew he was a child sexual molester, that’s right he was a police officer and he was a child sexual molester and while on duty! I’ve never back-talked the police and I’ve always respected them, not from their kindness or honorable actions but from fear. There is no doubt that over the years I’ve come to hate the police and if they stop me and try to draw blood from me they will be drawing it from a dead man.
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I think its great. They do it all the time in the county I work in. Just another way to try to deter drinking and driving. Now they can’t hide behind a breath test refusal.
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Probation Officer