1) Motorists Forced To Let Officers Draw Blood Samples At DUI Stops

An increasing number of police departments are allowing their officers draw blood samples from motorists under suspicion of a DUI/DWI. The officers have limited medical training and it’s the officer’s choice between a breathalyzer or a blood test.

9) Police Wrongly Seize Car From An Innocent Woman

Police in Alexandria, Louisiana seized the car belonging to a motorist who had committed no crime. A pair of police officers ran the license plate on Ruby Wallace’s 1995 Honda Accord and found the department of motor vehicles (DMV) had listed it as canceled. Wallace was without her car for days until the DMV admitted their database was wrong. As fees mounted, neither the Alexandria Police nor the DMV would take responsibility for the mistake or pay the towing company the $430 it demanded before it would return her Honda.

I don’t drink anymore and I haven’t in over twenty years, but, I’d raise my root beer to that John B.! Yes we need some more intelligence in just who we hire to protect us.

I heard recently (about a month ago) by either CNN or MSNBC that a small town in either AL or Georgia they had mostly convicted felons on their police force! How is that! They must be very proud of themselves for allowing that to happen! I think we have nothing but an uphill battle before us all since we now have a bunch of idiots who cannot so much as understand the oath he/she takes before he/she pergurs’ himself/herself on the stand in a courtroom.

Just a couple months ago I had a Judge who has taken an oath to uphold ALL the laws of this nation, laughing at the Federal regulatory laws set forth in the MUTCD in Court!! Now that’s brains huh?

I live in South Windsor, CT and have just the other day told my local and recently reelected state representative who sits on the state judiciary council that I found the state regulations for the posting of traffic control signs in direct violation with the federal MUTCD guidelines and then I showed him some research that I have done on the matter which included where both state statuory sections and state regulations that stated clearly “..shall conform to the specifications of the manual on uniform traffic control devices as approved and revised by the State Traffic Commision.”

I went to the STC and found that there is no state revised MUTCD. They use the federal MUTCD’s 2000 edition not even the latest edition which is a 2003 edition!

Then I went and measured most of the speed limit signs here in this town and found every one, even the one in front of the police station to be illegally posted. But the court after three tries and two convictions won’t allow me to enter into evidence the MUTCD!

I sit in court ’till they clear the court every time my case is to be heard and then patiently try my case as best a layman can do only to be convicted anyway. All of the cases before me get likewise convicted without the slightest regard supposed standard of “.. beyond reasonable doubt”. These words, like the US and State Constitutions are being violated by judges and prosecutors across the land. We have allowed beureaucrats to rule long enough, even your first amendment right is now under fire from all of our politicians!

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison wrote that we need another revolution every 50 or so years to keep these tyrants under control. Now we can’t even own a gun for tin can target practice and self protection without appearing to look like a radical extremist. How much of this are we to allow?

In the days of Thomas Jefferson a judge was elected and answerable to the people, but now you can’t even get a jury trial heard in a criminal court of law! We just recently took on half of the total debt of the entire history of the United States in a mere three months time, thusly plunging our childrens children into debt that even their children will be paying. When is enough going to be enough?

My only recourse is now at the ballot but even that as shown in this last election was meaningless, they both are socialists picked for us by the media! Meanwhile constitutionalist fundamental groups like the NRA and the NMA are to be silenced 60 days (2 months) before we go to the ballot! Let’s just keep acting like the people in the beginning of the Tom Hanks movie, “Joe vs the Volcano”!

Since moving to GA in 2005 I have found that some law enforcement personal take matters into their own hands feeling no need to follow procurers set forth by the GA laws.

I was involved in a MVA roll-over with my ex husband behind the wheel. He was suppose to be the designated driver and I was unaware he had been drinking.

I was unable to obtain a copy of the accident report; I was told as where others that also tried to obtain a copy that they had no record of the accident on file. This went on for months. I asked for and received copies of the Trauma and hospital reports from the night of the accident. His blood was drawn and he was three times over the legal limit.

I called the Internal Affairs Department trying to find answers. Strangely enough they where able to email me a copy of the accident report. I found the responding officers name and called to question why he had not followed through with the GA crime lab to check the driver’s blood alcohol level. The officer told me that because he had received nothing back from the lab he took this to mean the driver was not DUI but he would follow through now by finding the lab results and if the driver was in fact DUI at the time of the accident the law would be applied.

The Officer promised to keep me informed and call me back with an update as soon as he had answers. I never received a call, so I called the Officer back and was now being told that although he did now have a copy of the drivers blood alcohol and he was indeed DUI at the time of the accident it had been to long for them to do anything about it.

I was also told that because he was now my ex husband I was just trying to cause trouble and that the department could not help me. In emailing the Internal Affairs back with the Officers response I was now being told by the Internal Affairs Department that the Officer was doing me a favor by not sighting the driver for DUI because he would have also had to issue me a citation for allowing the driver to drink while intoxicated. I do have copies of this email.

I want to know why a driver who is clearly intoxicated can cause so much pain and suffering but not even be issued a citation. I want to know why the GA Sheriffs Department is pretending this never happened when I have copies of all documents saying otherwise. I want to know how the system in GA can be so bad that I am pulled over for DUI but had not been drinking was given a breathalyzer which read 0 and yet I was handcuffed and brought to the jail house to take another one (which also read 0) but a driver who is extremely intoxicated and the cause of a severe accident is not even given a warning. This would have been his third DUI.

Shall we just wait until someone is killed then say we should have done something about it? The accident happened on May 13, 2006. The report (for unknown reasons) just because available to me October 2008.

Thank you, Denise Savage
10/15/2008

Upset in MNV Says:
MPDCopsupporter is 100% right. The department makes us write tickets to meet their quota. Lt. Mike Lee is currently the head of Traffic and is making people fill a quota (although his direction comes from the Chief and Captains)…thought the residents of Monrovia would like to know that us cops are tired of being forced to write them “chicken s***” tickets just to meet the department’s quota. Quotas are illegal. Oh yeah, this quota has been going on for years and is SOP (Standard operating procedure).

I encourage all of you to call the Chief and City Council and express your outrage over this.

Is this something the NMA would look into?