DWI Checkpoint Coming to Denville
Morris County Prosecutor's Office says it will be implemented between Friday and Saturday.
A DWI checkpoint will be implemented in Denville Township between Friday and Saturday, Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi said.
A grant from the State Division of Highway Traffic Safety Administration is being used to implement multiple checkpoints throughout the county on various dates. One of those checkpoints was held in Roxbury in June.
The office received the grant, named “County DWI Enforcement Grant.” It is designed to establish checkpoints in cooperation with the Morris County municipal police departments at various locations throughout the county.
“The goal of the grant is to cut down on the number of drunk drivers who utilize our roads as well as to prevent crashes that are the direct result from drinking and driving," Bianchi said.
Town Drunk
3:59 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
So I shouldn't DWI on Friday in Denville...thanks for the heads up!!
sillyrabbit
4:29 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
See now putting it out there was a bab idea
clyde donovan
4:55 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
You don't have to worry about checkpoints if you don't abuse alcohol and other drugs.
FourScore
6:17 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
I do have to worry about our country turning into a virtual police state.
Aladdin Sarsippius Sulemenagic Jackson III
4:59 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Uncle Floyd's take on his experience with DWI checkpoints. When Uncle Floyd was questioned by the DWI checkpoint police if he had been drinking that evening, he rolled down the window and asked the cop to look inside his car and tell him whether the girl sitting in the passenger seat was really that ugly.
Dan Yaccorino
7:50 pm on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
I got scared the other day because I was talking on my cell when a cop passed me..I was relieved when I saw him talking on his cell as well....
The Good Guy
8:43 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
A simple device added to every car to prevent them from being started if the driver is under the influence will solve all drunk driving problems. But it will decrease the revenue of the police departments significantly.
been there
8:40 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Yes simple, but expensive to the individual.....why should the law abiding people have to pay extra for the drunks..... do you really believe the police get the money ????? it goes to the great state of NJ
Sir
8:48 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Keep government out of our lives - we do not need any more laws governing what we can and cant do. We are headed towards a police state.
V
9:32 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
>> We are headed towards a police state.
"Headed"? Between traffic stop cameras, unwarranted searches and seizures, war on plants, and tickets for not wearing a belt, our Constitutional rights are long gone. But of course we're doing great as long as EBT cards are recharged on time and Dancing With The Stars is on air.
Connor
10:23 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Ok ridiculous comments, sorry for you if you want to get killed by a drunk driver. I would like to keep my limbs . So yes, we should have a check point and if you have a problem with that call a taxi service because obviously your a drunk!
FourScore
11:01 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
I have no problem with tough drunk driving laws, nor tough punishments for drunk drivers. I also have no problem with the police stopping any driver who is obviously intoxicated. I have a big problem with DWI ‘checkpoints’, which means pulling over innocent people at random, with absolutely no cause, to check if they ‘may’ be intoxicated.
Any time we accept actions like this for the purpose of remaining safe, we willingly give up the same liberties that our forefather fought so hard to give us. This no different from the people who said they have no problem with the government reading their emails or bugging their phones after 9-11, for the purpose of remaining safe. You may have no problem living in a police state, but the rest of us do.
TCG
11:10 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
DWI checkpoints are a gross violation of the 4th amendement. By definition they are unconstitutional. Where are all the right wing zealots in Chatham who perpetually bitch about the government being too intrusive? How does it get more intrusive than being pulled over by the local gestapo for doing absolutley nothing wrong?
As Ben Frankliln once said, "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
V
11:13 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
>> Where are all the right wing zealots in Chatham who perpetually bitch about the
>> government being too intrusive?
They are likely in the same place as all the left wing moonbats and their ACLU standard-bearers. It looks like feral government expansion may bring left and right together someday - in the same concentration camp.
Amy Marie
12:22 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Hookerman- If you don't want to be randomly stopped on Friday don't drive through Denville. They never have DWI checkpoints without announcing them, giving you plenty of time to plan an alternate route so you don't have to be bothered. And pay attention to other parts of the country, it's not just NEW JERSEY that's doing these things. We aren't even first. I was in Maryland last weekend and there were DWI checkpoints. And they had red light cameras down there since 2008 or earlier. Stop making it seem like the State of New Jersey is trying to strip you of your rights, THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN NOW. DEAL.
FourScore
2:22 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
That's brilliant Amy. If we don't want out rights violated, we should simply stay out of the areas where this occurs. I suppose you would have told African Americans in the 19th century that if they didn't want to be enslaved, they could simply stay out of the slave states. Problem solved!
clyde donovan
2:30 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Hookerman's got a point about drunk driving check points being a violation of his civil rights. If he's killed by a drunk driver on Route 80, I promise to go to his funeral.
Amy Marie
7:43 pm on Friday, August 10, 2012
People like you who bitch about your rights being violated by checks like this or in airports, etc. are usually also the first ones who want to sue anyone and everyone when they are hit by a drunk driver or their family dies in a terrorist attack. OH WHY DIDN'T THEY KEEP US SAFERRRRRRR?!?! SOMEONE NEEDS TO PAY! I SWEAR IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY! It's a joke. And so are you. Also, equating DWI checkpoints to slavery shows how ridiculous you truly are Mr. Hookerman.
Timber
2:21 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
It's disgusting that people discount their Rights so easily.
Stacie Bohr
5:54 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
DWI check points are nothing new so I'm not exactly sure what all the hub bub is about. I got my license in the eighties and on any given night, traveling back to Bergen county from either Hoboken, the city or wherever, there were random checkpoints. I'm not a fan of the inconvenience but this isn't anything that hasn't been happening for years. My question is really more of why are they telling us? Is that a state or county requirement? Like Town Drunk said, they're giving those who do drive drunk a heads up. It's like me hiding cookies so my kids won't gobble them up but letting them know where I hid them. Or, on the flip side, maybe making people aware that there are checkpoints will make drunk drivers think twice before getting behind the wheel. I don't know.
FourScore
12:20 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
It took 144 years before women were give the right to vote in this country. Saying that a violated right is 'nothing new' does not seem to be a reasonable defense.