Are random check points a violation of the fourth ammendment?

Question

When we allow cops to stop us and seize our liscence and then force us to prove our innocence for no reason against the fourth ammendment? Is this a silly waist of time for our tax dollars?

Answer 1

You signed away your rights when you accepted a Drivers License. Random stops are heavily advertised on and in the media. It is considered for "the greater good".

Answer 2

No it isn't.

Driving is a privilege, not a right ,and can be taken away, when its shown that you were breaking the law.

Its not proving your innocence btw. No one is claiming your guilty of Drunk driving.

Answer 3

not if it saves your life

Answer 4

Random stops without probable cause are generally held to be unconstitutional.

Answer 5

They can be.  The supreme court has recognized that and there are very strict limits.  The check point cops will not seize a license unless they have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed.  The burden of proof applies at trial, not to the decision to make an arrest.

Answer 6

Cops don't "seize your licence"" unless you've done something wrong.

You're not telling us the whole story.

Answer 7

sorry no! it's not violating the fourth amendment because an officer does have reason to stop you, and that is to make sure you have a license.lol

Answer 8

Yes.  It is the very thing the 4th amendment was written to prevent.  Alas, our Repubic Supreme Court has deemed it legal.  They also said it was legal to own other people at one time.  

Answer 9

No, holding a valid drivers license and operating a motor vehicle on public land allows for reasonable search.  A drivers license is rarely suspended without valid reason.

Answer 10

"random check point" is a contradiction.

Random stops are unconstitutional. (Delaware v. Prouse)

Check points are not. (Michigan State Police v. Stitz)

Richard

Answer 11

it states that unreasonable search and seizure is not allowed. I guess its all in how you define unreasonable. just because we are inconvenienced doesn't make it unreasonable either.

                      

Answer 12

yeah, the fourth ammendment is just ignored these days

"random" security searches and warrentless wiretapping are just the begginning of the neo-con agenda

this is how hitler rose to power, slowly taking away freedoms, one by one

Answer 13

Random check points do not fall under the Constitution because there is no Constitutional right to drive a car and that's why you need a license. As long as their not stopping you for an illegal search, your way out of bounds.