650 vehicles stopped in roadblock: no ovi arrests

It's unacceptable. This shit's gotta stop.

The idea doesn't really bother me. Usually the roadblocks catch all kinds of people with expired licenses & other stuff, not just impairment. Looks like they struck out this time, though

I intend to carry a copy of the constitution in my vehicles in case I am stopped for no apparent reason. I figure that's the only way that some LEOs will ever get to read it.

I was stopped. I had my Glock laying out on my dashboard. Heh heh. Love the way their eyes grow large. Perfectly legal and the LEO's hate it :)

^I love it.

The whole idea irritates me. Someone commented on the Blade article and made a very good point. How can they call it a "sobriety" checkpoint if they check for things other than people driving drunk?
I fail to see how these checkpoints differ from Nazi Germany and some storm trooper asking for your "papers".
Of course you get those that say, "if it gets one drunk off the road, blah, blah"
Bull. If they want to make a difference stop letting the multiple offenders off easy. How many times have you read about someone getting their 7th, 6th, 12th, DUI?
If someone gets that many DUI's then they must be driving even after their license is suspended. If they do that, then the only way to keep society safe from them is to lock them up....for a long time.

I'd imagine that most of the routine drunk drivers keep an eye out and avoid the checkpoints.

Doubt that they're busting the hardcore every weekend partiers, who probably find an alternate route home on the announced checkpoint nights. (At checkpoints when anyone gets busted.)

This is o.k., but stopping and asking people to show proof of citizenship is wrong?
If they want to really stop drunk driving, check the people leaving the bars first and don't post where the checkpoints are.

"don't post where the checkpoints are" - that makes it unconstitutional. Posting a blurb in the daily rag makes all your rights defunct.

The whole program is fascism at it's finest.

I fail to see how these checkpoints differ from Nazi Germany and some storm trooper asking for your "papers".

The Stormtroopers or Sturmabteilung (SA) were a paramilitary organization that was used to keep order during Nazi party meetings. The SA never asked anyone for their papers; their job was to discover, batter and eject opponents of the Nazi party who would infiltrate these meetings and disrupt them. You're probably thinking of the armed Schutzstaffel (SS), or Wafen SS. The SS did ask for papers once in a while, but not often. In fact, they didn't do much asking of anyone except their commanding officer.

The main difference is the uniforms and the weapons. The Nazi SS had cooler looking uniforms for daily use and carried Mauser C96 and the MP28 sub-machine gun. The cops have Glocks, shotguns and AR-15s.

See?

I agree that this is unconstitutional, but the Ohio supreme court has ruled that it's perfectly constitutional and a lot of good comes of these stops. So, until we get some State representatives that believe in the Bill of Rights we're pretty much out of luck.

The Ohio Supreme Court has also ruled that police officers have "magical radar detection eyes" and they don't need silly radar guns to know you are speeding or going "real fast" (using the legal terms there shown on the ticket). No proof needed to provide the State profit from your ticket.

Let me say cops have a job I couldn't even begin to want, but it's the direction we put them in that baffles my mind sometimes.

If they net zero arrests for OVI how will they justify the need for this next time? One should logically conclude that people aren't drinking and driving as much as they used to, so they should end these warrantless intrusions into our personal lives, right?

"If they net zero arrests for OVI how will they justify the need for this next time?"

When was the last time government ever ended anything due to lack of results?

Sobriety screening to be set up on Airport Hwy
They've got another one tonight from 8pm to 1am on Route 2 right by Toledo Express Airport. Remind me never to fly out of Toledo Express for fear of being pointlessly held up by another demonstration of police power and then missing a flight.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2012/06/02/Sobriety-screening-to-be-set-up-on-Airport-Hwy.html

There was one last night on Navarre in Oregon. did not hear how many vehicles were diverted

Is it my imagination or are there a whole lot more of these in Ohio than elsewhere? I travel around fairly frequently, but I never have heard of this many roadblocks anywhere else.