Drug checkpoints are illegal in the US, as per the law, so therefore what Ohio police officers did on the I-271 is illicit. What they did is put up signs announcing a drug checkpoint up ahead, but there was really no such thing.
All the police did was put up the signs, and hope that it would make some people act suspiciously, and it would be those citizens that they would actually pull over and search, or threaten to search in the hopes that bluffing will make them confess.
I think that as a person, or the chief of police in the area, you would have to sink very low to give such an order, and to literally trick the very people you’re trying to protect and serve, the ones who pay you through their taxes every month.
Reading a few of the comments posted for the story on ABC News as well as it is clear that people are outraged and offended.
Even if their intention of sniffing out drug users and traffickers is an admirable one, they should do it properly, because deceiving people is wrong, even if the goal has positive implications. We’re curious how this pans out in the future, and what happens to those who originally thought it up.
In addition, we found a video on YouTube, a TV news excerpt, which explains that Ohio is actually training specialists, called Drugs Recognition Experts, or DREs for short. Could it be that these are specialists mentioned here?
By Andrei Nedelea
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