Cops know Constitutional rights are a subscription service (i.e. you can afford a good lawyer). If they judge you as a person incapable of paying your subscription, you don't have any rights.
@@jpnewman1688 We don't vote in police in my village, nor the city manager who hires them. But I almost always vote and did vote for county Sheriff. I do get your point. Have a great mid week.
If they arrest a person for drunk driving after they blew 0.00 then the department should be in trouble for violating the civil rights of that person as the police are then doing a false arrest.
But what he said was they then just make up some fable about how the guy was off balance or some bullshit. It’s to the point now where a persons word should be useless as evidence of anything.
@@gordonwaite2Cops get all kind of bonuses and money for DUI arrests from organizations like MADD or Mothers against Drunk Drivers so they make false arrests knowing full well it will never stick but not caring because it will mean money in there pockets awards and promotions and when investigated the department will say the famous line we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing.
@@gordonwaite2its a known practice that the federal government pays bounties for DUI arrests. The departments want the money. Many departments have their own incentives as well.
If you are arrested for driving impaired and blow a 0.0 on a breathalyzer, that means you will be taken to the hospital to have a blood draw which will identify any substance in the system that can cause impairment such as THC.
I wonder if it's also a means of charging people for their incarceration, even if only overnight. Like another said, just a means for more oppression of poor citizens.
And it speaks directly to the integrity of the officer, and or officers. Who would Jack another person to arrest and incarceration so they can get closer to a bonus? It’s disgusting.
@@kevinvilmont6061 When you understand that they hold themselves apart from the people that it will become clear. One police union used to pay officers $500 when they fatally shot a civilian so they 'could blow off steam'. They were shocked -shocked- when people reacted badly to it, and called it a 'bounty'.
Happened to me! I was arrested after blowing a 0.0%. Had a urine test (two -- the second was via a catheter) at the jail. My friend who posted bail took one look at me and took me to the ER. MRI indicated I had a stroke. I had to hire an attorney for nearly 10k because i was unsuccessful in my attempts to have the DA drop the Driving Under the Influence -- Drugs/Other charge! The judge was angry at the pre-trial hearing.
A lot of the times, no matter what, after the arrest they get put on pre trial monitoring too. So, even if you are innocent you still have to pay 300 a month for the ankle monitor + the charges for the random drug tests. All until a trial that will be drug out as long as possible and then dismissed at the last min. Its all a racket that starts with " you got ID"
There doesn't have to be a reason to pull you over Steve as they can just lie about it as they rarely will face discipline.. lying about a dui is done for profit. They will always say you had something in your system.
@@jpnewman1688kidnapping And extortion. Taking someone into custody against their will when they’ve committed No Crime Has to be Kidnapping to any reasonable person.
@@Bobaliciousand what substance do they test for? Each substance requires a different test. Marijuana is legal in Hawaii and many other states. DWI is no longer driving while intoxicated. It is now driving while impaired. That could mean drugs (legal and illegal), alcohol, even over the counter products. An officer must testify (not the breathalyzer) that, in their informed and trained opinion, the person's ability to drive was impaired enough to make them a hazard to themselves and others. The breathalyzer only provides the court a presumptive proof of that testimony.
We need more police accountability. There is far too much corruption in our police system. And the icing on the cake is “we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing”
But they aren't tests. They're evidence gathering tools. In the name of combatting drunk driving, we've granted law enforcement the power to bypass the 5th Amendment - if don't want to automatically have your license suspended, you're forced to testify against yourself.
The legal limit is .05 where I live, I blew .05 so the cops take me back to the cop shop we do the proper breat test at th3 station and I blow 0.048 the cop just looks at me and says " jeez your one lucky bastard " then he hands me the print out from the machine says " your free to go " I still have the printout from that machine framed on my wall from 20 years ago.
It can save you. It's one part of evidence that your defense attorney can use two question probable cause for the arrest as well as reasonable doubt during trial. It's simply evidence.
We investigate ourselves and aren't smart enough to find any wrongdoing. That means two wrongdoings make a rightdoing! And so, we are clear! Back to work fellows!
This happened to me with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office last year. I “failed” the field sobriety test, was arrested, taken to the county jail, blew 0.00 twice on the Intoxilyzer and still spent 19 hours in jail. Took them 3 months to drop all charges.
I've seen videos where a person gets pulled over for turn signal and then the cop says he smells alcohol. When they blew zeroes, he then arrested them for suspicion of drug use. Completely forgetting he used the smell of alcohol to justify the PBT.
He didn't forget he was 100% going to arrest for DUI from the moment he flipped on the lights everything he did between the time he flipped on the lights to popping on the cuffs was just a song and dance routine because to them it is just a routine.
I have a friend who was in a single car wreck and it turned out to be it was a sugar diabetes problem the cop insisted that he was drunk even after their own blood test came back clean at 0% alcohol they continued to run him through the judicial system which eventually stressed him out so bad it killed him and the i lost every ounce of respect I ever had for them.
They are looking for revenue because tourism is falling off. After they basically said the Constitution didn't apply in Hawaii why would you even want to go there.
Good question. In Hawaii, the Constitution is the paper they tear up when using the toilet. For those "in charge," it's the next-best thing to a sole dictatorship. Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey are taking notes as best they can, but just can't keep up.
@@SlavTigerIt is, but since it's run by the same party polluting the rest of the West Coast, it's more like a fiefdom and the residents are just serfs to their leige lord.
@@gta4everrr oh I totally agree with that! It’s a lose lose situation when they jack someone up knowing they get no ramifications for lying 🤬🤬🤬 And the lying part has to be overturned by SCOTUS 🤷♂️
I wish PDs understood that when they allow corrupt practices to go unaddressed, all it does is shake society's faith in them, and it leads to things like "defund the police" movements.
ABQ, NM: A local lawyer was working with several PD in an extortion scam that just came to light. The cop would pull people over and charge them with DUI, even if they blow 0.00, but tell them if they used that specific lawyer they wouldn't be found guilty. One of the victims went to the lawyer in question and got them on audio saying "if you hire me, I can guarantee a not guilty result". Turns out, you can still be arrested for DUI/DWI even if there is no evidence of intoxication AND no moving infraction.
Steve, I live in Honolulu. Most of these arrests are at Fed. Funded DUI checkpoints. They stop every 5th, 10th car so they don’t get accused of targeting certain race of drivers. The officers are under pressure to show a certain number of arrests to get future funding. Just my view from reading our local news.
@@JW-mb6tq if they dont have the authority to arrest, and they have restrained or taken people to a different location against their will, then they have committed kidnapping, unless we have a multi tiered justice system. We have a multi tiered justice system where crimes are different depending on a persons relationship to the government.
@@PC-vx6ko Then due process is the persons course of action. Not arbitrarily waxing philosophical to claim kidnapping. If you can’t see a difference between police overstepping their authority and kidnappers you are probably an anarchist. Also I would point out you are diminishing the actual crime of kidnapping with your hyperbolic argument.
Not even that sometimes. The cop just needed a victim to make his quota. There's a recent case where young man was extremely polite and sober and the cop still arrested him for DUI after he blew 0.00. A blood test also showed the kid was clean.
Daughter was driving with drunk guys in the car. She blows multiple zeros. Deputies call state patrol saying "breathalyzer must be broken" Trooper came say machine isn't broken and thinking "these deputies are idiots"🎉
Wait, so if I'm understanding She was sober, and was driving intoxicated people around. And they still wanted to arrest her? For being the designated driver? I have no faith in our justice system anymore
I remember a friend of a friend had a diabetic episode in California. The Police supervisor kept telling the Officer to arrest the driver. Luckily the Officer was adamant the driver needed to be evaluated by medics due to a possible diabetic emergency. Sure enough the medics tested the patients blood sugar and it was a diabetic emergency. The supervisors push officers to cite or arrest constantly. Its a pressure Officers carry everyday. How supervisors pressure daily quotas is unbelievable and illegal.
My neighbor smelled like she was drinking 7-7s and acted buzzed. Fortunately my ski patrol training told me the was a diabetic emergency and she got to the er just in time. There was a time when police didn't know how to stop bleeding, that charged. Why aren't they taught to do a quick finger stick or at least ask the person if they are diabetic then get them to the er?
I had it happen to me three times. My license has been suspended for 24 yrs. I had no other citations . I was really in a situation that I was lucky to have survived. This was in a small coastal town in Northern Ca
The amount of people saved by field sobriety tests is literally 0. There is always something you did wrong. It's like these tests are made to justify an arrest.
I got pulled over on suspicion of DUI. I don't drink but he swore I reeked of alcohol. Put me thru fields and seemed upset/ disappointed that he couldn't arrest me. Like he tried everything to arrest me. Had to let me go and was pissed.
@@ren808 That doesn't mean the SFSTs saved you from going to jail... it just means they didn't hurt you by putting you in there. But, not hurting is not interchangeable or equivalent with helping. As cops say in many DUI arrest videos those tests are not pass/fail & they aren't simply misspeaking when they say that. The tests are not designed, nor intended, to differentiate between people who are sober & people who are intoxicated. They are designed to find people who are intoxicated. They are pretty good at accomplishing what they are intending to do, the problem is they also tend to identify a lot of people who are not intoxicated as well. But, because they aren't intended to differentiate between who is sober & who is intoxicated that doesn't matter. If I remember correctly, the HGN test (the eye test) falsely identifies sober people least often of the 3 but it is still identifies around 35% [it's somewhere like 33%-37% but I don't remember the exact number,] of sober people. It is also the test most likely to be administered improperly with adverse conditions for the person taking part in the test since the officers is actively involved in the test & not simply giving instructions. i.e. An example is that the stimulus the person is meant to follow with their eyes is supposed to move at a specific speed & moving it faster than that begins to quickly degrade the reliability of the test & significantly increase the amount of false positives. Tons of DUI arrest videos I see have the officers moving the stimulus way too fast.
My positive experience. Late 80’s at college. I was older, so legal age. Pulled over for failing to turn on headlights in well lit area. Had been drinking beer earlier in the afternoon and told the cops… it was now Saturday night. Taken to station and tested. Blew a 0.06 and was released immediately with zero charges.
The sheriff in Cobb County, GA was interviewed by the local news about a string of DUI arrests by his deputies in which the breathalyzer and blood tests showed no evidence of intoxicants in the arrested persons blood or breath. As I recall this happened 15 times in a year and some of these individuals lives were dramatically negatively impacted by the arrest, which lead to the news teams investigation. The sheriff told the reporter that his deputies were “better at detecting intoxication than the machines”. Essentially, in Cobb County GA, If the deputy says you’re intoxicated, you are. Science be damned!
Cherokee County Georgia Sheriff said here hold my beer. Don't take a breath test at all, arrest because a driver pulled over too quickly to let you pass when you put on the blue lights and you smelled alcohol.
It's illegal; They can't demand you show up to a state in the middle of the ocean for a ticket. They are required by law to move it within a reasonable distance to where the accused lives. Any lawyer worth their fee would get it tossed out for being unreasonable.
@@dakota9821 If it is like the speeding ticket I got in El Paso for driving with traffic while having an out of state license plate, they offer the option of just pleading guilty and paying the fine. It's a money grab, pure and simple. It's cheaper to pay the fine than go back and fight it.
In the small town of Cobb, California there is one officer that if he pulls you over for anything and you're under the age of 30, you are going to jail for drunk driving.
Well in a round about way they are because they are taught that NHTSA considers those to be indicators of impairment. So if they are building a case for a DUI those are things they can easily write down that can pretty much only be corroborated by them.
Oh yes. I was arrested for being under the influence and I wasn’t. The cop didn’t even pull me over. I was already on the side of the road parked legally. Of the charges were dismissed but I spent 6 hours in jail.
The main problem is that the preliminary test doesn’t test for drugs so the officer can still claim that you are under the influence of “something” and take you in for a blood test.
This is not the first time. When you put a profit motive for the police, they will operate this way forever. There are 4 detectives where I live (330,000 citizens) and tons of flatfoots to hand out tickets. One makes money for them, the other not so much.
@@MarinaOlsgaard - I had my identity stolen. A $35K SUV bought in my name was ran through fast pass toll roads. Pics taken of the thieves. No "resources" to follow up on these pics. I'm guessing if my name was Gavin Newsom, I would have gotten those resources allocated. Eventually, they dumped the SUV in Mexico and the dealer that erroneously sold it to them got it back and it came off my credit report. The cops were 0% help. They took my report and did nothing, even when I spoon fed them ways to get their pics.
Here in Virginia, i was pulled over at 3am for suspected DUI for the famous - now discredited - crossing the white line on the right. I had to walk the line, touch my nose, follow the finger, then blow into a balloon, twice. The cop, astonishingly, apologized. Thought for sure I'd been drinking because my eyes were bloodshot. I had contact lenses at the time and 3am without removing them tore up my eyes. I told him that and he gave me a ticket for speeding instead.
The sad thing is that the rules of procedure do say that the officer needs to have articulable probable cause in order to perform the arrest and that they cannot dispose of evidence even if it's exculpatory. Many officers that are willing to arrest despite a 0.00 result will also throw out and not report the result.
they’ll probably treat that as somewhat of an admission of guilt and hassle you on it, “oh you think you’re gonna blow more?” something like that, they can also still just lie to you, id probably just remain silent
This happens all over the Country. As soon as a cop gets back from "drug recognition expert" training, they think everyone is under the influence of something.
As a retired Federal Agent this is the way I looked at enforcing the law, doing investigations, and arresting individuals. If there was no probable cause that a law was violated or the person was a danger to themselves or others then I had no authority and moved on. My job was to enforce the law and protect the public, protecting the public also means that you don't waste your time on people who do not appear to be conducting criminal activity or are a public safety concern. Instead I would move on to look for real criminals. You cannot arrest someone on suspicion and a gut feeling, you have to be able to detail probable cause and if an exigent information existed which indicated the individual was not conducting criminal activity that must be weighed by the officer as soon as that information is made available. The totality of the information present at the time must be considered before an arrests, not just the facts that support probable cause, but those that point to an individuals innocence as well. Also as a Law Enforcement Officer, while I would go through "proper channels" to report wrong doing or violations in my agency, I also had outside legal council and persuade outside oversite as well because I noticed way to many internal problems were covered up by our own internal affairs unit. I even was threatened once by a supervisor who was an internal affairs officer over a complaint I made, the threat towards me was made to OIG (the Office of the Inspector General), the OIG officer was astonished that the internal affairs officer made the threat towards me, the internal affairs officer then had a coveted foreign assignment rescinded. I still got a Letter of Caution for failure to report incidents, after I reported the incidents, that's how messed up internal affairs often is. Personally I would sue the officer and the department for false arrest, illegal imprisonment, lying on official documents, and for violations of my civil rights, and I think I would win. Most cops are good, but the bad ones and bad policies aimed at stats and revenue must be harshly delt with so the police do only what they are supposed to do really enforce law to protect the people, period.
you weren't trained by idf trained instructors, were you? that's only been a thing for about 20 years now. police academy instructors are literally sent to be trained by a brutal occupational force that never admits wrongdoing regardless of their actions. it shows in the behaviours of police now. they're "never wrong", even when there's overwhelming evidence they're absolutely wrong. couple that to the complete lack of meaningful consequences, and the result is that law enforcement and public safety is no longer the goal, just profiteering and domination.
@@thehellyousay I went two Federal Police Academies in the early 1990s and the second one was pretty brutal. I have to say that our academies have gotten softer not harder over the years and lowered standers considerably now. But I was Federal and there is a very different mentality from local police. I did tons of street work and enforcement with local guys and they are great, but I did notice it was a far less tolerant mindset than Federal. Part of that comes with the territory that they are more "in the trenches" with car stops at night, dealing with domestics, abuse, murders and more gritty and nasty stuff than I usually saw. A problem with a lot of Departments, including my own are stats, the other was monetary seizures and fins (though there is a place for these, they should not be used as a means of funding a police department or city ect). Everything we seized went to a fund to help victims, but it was unfortunately not used that way many times, and it was also shared with locals, which was fine because they were sending us people that they could have used in their own towns. But a big problem in Law Enforcement is the superstar mentality, the guy who runs around doing everything wrong to get stats and then get praised for his work, when his work is built on a pile of bad behavior. Another big problem is the failure to deal with bad or corrupt officers until they do something horrible wrong. I worked with several people who have been since indicted and convicted of various crimes, and I am not suppressed because I pointed out how bad the system was and what the exact problems over a decade before where these people worked. Because the proper safeguards were not put in place that these people were allowed to run wild because they were super stars bringing in big cases, their bad behavior got worse and worse until they were finally arrested.
I got convicted for DUI when I blew a 0.00 and did the tests perfectly. I was still ARRESTED me from the side of the road at 2am (I got called into my night shift mid-shift), took me to the station, and then charged me with the DUI. Of COURSE I took that to court, thought it was an easy win. Day of court, that cop shows up smug as can be, and explains that even though I blew zero and did the tests, he saw visible signs of alcohol, and witnessed me throwing beer cans out of my car window before being pulled over (also false). The judge accepted his "Impeccable record" and asked if I had any proof to contradict him. I had gone through a rather ridiculous process of submitting and verifying my dashcam as evidence, but the judge said it didn't show anything relevant. I asked for a trial, he said the facts were not in dispute, it was a summary judgement situation. I ASKED for a trial and was refused. I never got to have my case heard. My 380 dollar ticket ballooned to 1,400 in court costs and fees and two lost days of income. Moral of the story? F the police.
This happens all over the country because most states have made the penalties so lucrative. And not just for police, but court fees, lawyers, tow companies even have "enhanced fees" for DUI related towing in some places. A DUI audit in Illinois a few years back showed almost half of cases involved blowing .03 or lower. Why? Because getting the case resolved costs around 15k on average now.
Mother against drunk drivers and federal government give out money to these departments to combat drunk driving,the more arrest weather negative or positive will qualify you for the money this is why they set up these DUI check points
About three decades ago there was a legislator in Vermont who proposed a law that would define DWI for those under 21 as driving with a BAC of 0.0 or higher. It got a lot of laughs. I think they eventually passed a similar law with the limit set at 0.02.
I was wondering if it was about another intoxicant… until I heard that the officer TURNED OFF THE CAMERA! I’m betting something personal was going on there.
Never submit to a roadside field sobriety test, it is not legally required (in most states). You are only required to submit a sample if they suspect you're impaired (breath/blood/urine). Submitting to a field sobriety test only gives them the excuse to claim probable cause for arrest.
If they're making you do the test they're taking you. The tests are not used to determine whether or not you're drunk. They are used to generate probable cause and as such will always do so.
@@unknowngamer37415 The point is, don't make it easy for them to make their case. It's a lot more difficult to sweep this kind of arrest under the rug if there's no PC for the arrest. Plus, there's no sense in spinning around on one foot like an idiot if they're just gonna take you anyway.
I have been asked to do a breathalyzer once and was shocked when they let me go after actually blowing 0.00. i figured they suspect me obviously so theyre gonna find (more like make up) some reason to arrest me. But after blowing i guess they beleived that i really had just gotten off a 15 hour shift and was exhausted rather than drunk.
The DUI Guy covers cases like these all the time. All the tests are designed to pin you for the crime, not to determine your innocence. Also Ben is behind the YT plaque.
Check out The Civil Rights Lawyer: Country Singer Writes Song About Arrest by Idiot Cop. Then listen to the song... he did a pretty good job. The young man is the poster child for what to do when pulled over.
I'd been looking for this comment, as I was on the same page. Watched that video and the video of the song. He has now released the video with the dash camera in it. It's great.
I wonder if something else was also charged in addition to the DUI. Maybe they are doing that so they can tell someone they will drop the DUI if the person pleads guilty to a different charge. Either way, if they blow 0.00, they should NOT be getting a DUI.
When there are no consequences for police wrong doing you eventually get police officers who grossly flout the law. Imagine if speed limits were posted but never enforced: most everyone would speed.
This is why you never perform any field sobriety tests. As soon as they ask you to step out of the vehicle to determine if you are impaired, they've already decided they are going to arrest you. Refuse the field sobriety test. They will take you in. Remain silent except to ask for them to provide you with an attorney as soon as possible. No matter what time it is, they will call a public defender and put you alone in a room to talk to them. The attorney will tell you what happens if you fail or refuse any breath or blood tests or if they can get a warrant. Take that attorney's advice on what you should do. These police are incentivized to make DUI arrests through promotions, thus they have a financial incentive to do so. Modern police are not the protect and serve type your parents grew up with.
@@Noneofyourbusiness2000 it's often legal to refuse field sobriety tests but a misdemeanor to refuse the preliminary breathalyzer. You should definitely take that b/c if you don't they will arrest you and do the blood test anyway. And you will still get arrested for the refusal for the preliminary test.
@@venalleader2909 there are only 10 states with implied consent laws where it is a criminal offense to refuse a blood or breathalyzer test, and in no state is it a criminal or civil offense to refuse a field sobriety test. You have a right against self incrimination.
Implied consent can be argued that consent is given when cops are operating within the boundaries of peoples rights and the law. Once they extend the traffic stop longer than necessary to effect the reason for the stop, none of that BS applies.
In MI they can even charge you with DWI (driving while impaired) if you look tired. Ever work a bunch of OT and look like death warmed over on your drive home? Apparently that's enough to be arrested. Not sure how they test for that--
Leo/cop (criminal of police) Body cams should come on 5 minutes after removing from charger (including sound) & remain on till returned to the charger ..... Have off switch defeats it purpose I have watched 100s of videos where cops turn off their body cams (especially the sound) & even many times there are multiple cops that turn cams off so they can huddle up like a football team to plan their next play ..... Anytime there is a lapse in body cam footage the case should be dismissed with prejudice Doesn't the court assume if the defendant hides evidence that it would incriminate said defendant...... Well the same standard should be held to police ESPECIALLY BLATANT BODYCAM BEING TURNED OFF but hey the one thing the government is really great at is hypocrasy
In case you haven't noticed none of this is about public safety, it is an extortion racket aimed at poor and working people.
Cops know Constitutional rights are a subscription service (i.e. you can afford a good lawyer). If they judge you as a person incapable of paying your subscription, you don't have any rights.
Truer words have never been spoken.
@@williezar2231really.. But how many times did you VOTE?? 😂😂😂
@@jpnewman1688 We don't vote in police in my village, nor the city manager who hires them. But I almost always vote and did vote for county Sheriff. I do get your point. Have a great mid week.
@@williezar2231 so you can't cry about the STUPID prizes from your masters.. 💯💯😂😂
If they arrest a person for drunk driving after they blew 0.00 then the department should be in trouble for violating the civil rights of that person as the police are then doing a false arrest.
Especially when the blood test labs come back clean as was the case with the subject of the video.
But what he said was they then just make up some fable about how the guy was off balance or some bullshit. It’s to the point now where a persons word should be useless as evidence of anything.
@@The_10th_ManIf you mean a cops word, why yes. They literally lie for a living, so why should a liar be believed?
Cops have qualified immunity....basically means the victims can not sue police officer for trying to perform their duty.
@@The_10th_Man That's what the body camera is for, and if the officer turned it off he's hiding or destroying evidence.
When they get bonuses, awards and promotions for arrest but not the conviction
This is what happens
Much understanding of LE action is gained by identifying incentives.
Did I miss where he stated the police get bonuses for arrests? What bonuses?
@@gordonwaite2organizations like MADD pay departments for DUI arrests.
@@gordonwaite2Cops get all kind of bonuses and money for DUI arrests from organizations like MADD or Mothers against Drunk Drivers so they make false arrests knowing full well it will never stick but not caring because it will mean money in there pockets awards and promotions and when investigated the department will say the famous line we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing.
@@gordonwaite2its a known practice that the federal government pays bounties for DUI arrests. The departments want the money. Many departments have their own incentives as well.
If they arrest you for blowing 0.00, does that mean you have to be held indefinitely? Your level will NEVER go down...
Hahaha
You would be surprised
Maybe they give you a bottle of beer and then wait for the requisite amount of time 😂🤦🏻♀️
Good point.
If you are arrested for driving impaired and blow a 0.0 on a breathalyzer, that means you will be taken to the hospital to have a blood draw which will identify any substance in the system that can cause impairment such as THC.
Yknow, it's REALLY hard to defend cops when they so aggressively protect thier corrupt and incompetent officers from consequences
@@yaqbulyakkerbat4190 yeah.. But who gave them the power, consent, legitimacy, 💵💵 and weapons to begin with?? GODS?? 😂😂😂
@@jpnewman1688senior cops did. its an ouroboros of corruption
We've got to stop letting them investigate themselves.
@@yesitschelle yup.. Let's keep VOTING then BEG for CHANGE.. 😂😂😂
You could even say that defending police is impossible
When you realize that the police employee gets credit for a drunk driving arrest, even if the case is never prosecuted, it all makes sense
That's bureaucracy for you.
I wonder if it's also a means of charging people for their incarceration, even if only overnight. Like another said, just a means for more oppression of poor citizens.
And it speaks directly to the integrity of the officer, and or officers. Who would Jack another person to arrest and incarceration so they can get closer to a bonus? It’s disgusting.
@@kevinvilmont6061 When you understand that they hold themselves apart from the people that it will become clear. One police union used to pay officers $500 when they fatally shot a civilian so they 'could blow off steam'. They were shocked -shocked- when people reacted badly to it, and called it a 'bounty'.
Police pension funds. Payouts need to be taken from police pension funds.
i have been saying this for at least 30 years now....
@@hellshade2 really.. But how many times did you VOTE?? 😂😂😂
Then they'll arrest......nobody.
@@BigBadDodge4x4 where did the gangsters get the 💵💵 from for their pensions?? GODS?? 😂😂😂
@@prun8893 so you THINK the gangsters are there to "serve and protect" you?? 😂😂😂
Happened to me! I was arrested after blowing a 0.0%. Had a urine test (two -- the second was via a catheter) at the jail. My friend who posted bail took one look at me and took me to the ER. MRI indicated I had a stroke. I had to hire an attorney for nearly 10k because i was unsuccessful in my attempts to have the DA drop the Driving Under the Influence -- Drugs/Other charge! The judge was angry at the pre-trial hearing.
Pure evil disguised as a justice system
Im sorry this happened to you :( please take care of yourself
You must be from Cherokee County Georgia
So, what was the final outcome?
probably found guilty. Unfortunately.
Cases were rejected. In the meantime the accused had to pay for a bond, pay a bonding fee, pay a booking fee, pay to get his car out of impound.
The cases were no doubt rejected for Qualified Immunity. As long as QI exists, I will be anti-cop.
A lot of the times, no matter what, after the arrest they get put on pre trial monitoring too. So, even if you are innocent you still have to pay 300 a month for the ankle monitor + the charges for the random drug tests. All until a trial that will be drug out as long as possible and then dismissed at the last min. Its all a racket that starts with " you got ID"
There doesn't have to be a reason to pull you over Steve as they can just lie about it as they rarely will face discipline.. lying about a dui is done for profit. They will always say you had something in your system.
Some may even loose their job.
And pay an attorney.
No government officials should be able to investigate themselves. Should be an independent civilian investigator
All they gotta do is help victims.
Definitely.
Exactly. So corrupt
Sounds like kidnapping to me.
Government sponsored Kidnapping
It's just extortion.. 💵💵💯💯
@@jpnewman1688kidnapping And extortion. Taking someone into custody against their will when they’ve committed No Crime Has to be Kidnapping to any reasonable person.
Armed kidnapping
@@jamessharp9790 yup.. But who gave power, consent, legitimacy, 💵💵 and weapons to the gangsters?? GODS?? 😂😂😂
When investigating citizen complaints, it's just another case of "We, the police, investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
Forealz! Complaints only work on tv.
Prosecuting 20% of DUI cases points to a lack of faith in the police department's competency.
In the cops defense, DUI includes more than alcohol. You can have no alcohol in your system and still be guilty of DUI.
@@gk5891 its gone overboard, even the founders have said its gone nuts
@@gk5891I bet you VOTED a lot.. 😂😂😂
@@gk5891 But they would've tested for other substances as well. An incompetent police force is a menace to the community.
@@Bobaliciousand what substance do they test for? Each substance requires a different test. Marijuana is legal in Hawaii and many other states. DWI is no longer driving while intoxicated. It is now driving while impaired. That could mean drugs (legal and illegal), alcohol, even over the counter products.
An officer must testify (not the breathalyzer) that, in their informed and trained opinion, the person's ability to drive was impaired enough to make them a hazard to themselves and others. The breathalyzer only provides the court a presumptive proof of that testimony.
We need more police accountability. There is far too much corruption in our police system. And the icing on the cake is “we investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing”
"If you can get sunk by the test, the test should _save_ you." Simple. Simple and true.
But they aren't tests. They're evidence gathering tools. In the name of combatting drunk driving, we've granted law enforcement the power to bypass the 5th Amendment - if don't want to automatically have your license suspended, you're forced to testify against yourself.
The legal limit is .05 where I live, I blew .05 so the cops take me back to the cop shop we do the proper breat test at th3 station and I blow 0.048 the cop just looks at me and says " jeez your one lucky bastard " then he hands me the print out from the machine says " your free to go " I still have the printout from that machine framed on my wall from 20 years ago.
It can save you. It's one part of evidence that your defense attorney can use two question probable cause for the arrest as well as reasonable doubt during trial.
It's simply evidence.
Theres no breath test for weed or opioid, tho...
@@CptCrackersohio uses a saliva swab rapid test. Not very accurate
The public blows 0.00 ... the current level of trust for police.
We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing. 🙄😂
Well, we're divine creatures, how could there be wrongdoing?
If the verbiage is "any number" then blowing zeroes would not be covered as zero is not a number but a place holder. Prove me weong.
We investigate ourselves and aren't smart enough to find any wrongdoing. That means two wrongdoings make a rightdoing! And so, we are clear! Back to work fellows!
i think this investigation lacks all.
In fact we found that we're doing great and have authorized bonuses for ourselves.
This happened to me with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office last year. I “failed” the field sobriety test, was arrested, taken to the county jail, blew 0.00 twice on the Intoxilyzer and still spent 19 hours in jail. Took them 3 months to drop all charges.
I've seen videos where a person gets pulled over for turn signal and then the cop says he smells alcohol. When they blew zeroes, he then arrested them for suspicion of drug use. Completely forgetting he used the smell of alcohol to justify the PBT.
He didn't forget he was 100% going to arrest for DUI from the moment he flipped on the lights everything he did between the time he flipped on the lights to popping on the cuffs was just a song and dance routine because to them it is just a routine.
Sounds like Cherokee County Georgia
FTP... FFS... 😖
I have a friend who was in a single car wreck and it turned out to be it was a sugar diabetes problem the cop insisted that he was drunk even after their own blood test came back clean at 0% alcohol they continued to run him through the judicial system which eventually stressed him out so bad it killed him and the i lost every ounce of respect I ever had for them.
Sorry for your loss
As a disabled diabetic I live in fear of that kind of thing 😮 I'm so sad for your loss
So basically they're corrupt?
Yes
💯💯
Yes, average American cop.
Guilty until proven innocent...
The victim always get stuck with their car towed.
The victim pay for the tow and storage fees.
"If it is good enough to put you in jail, it is good enough to keep you out." Amen to that, sir.
They are looking for revenue because tourism is falling off. After they basically said the Constitution didn't apply in Hawaii why would you even want to go there.
Good question. In Hawaii, the Constitution is the paper they tear up when using the toilet. For those "in charge," it's the next-best thing to a sole dictatorship.
Massachusetts, California, and New Jersey are taking notes as best they can, but just can't keep up.
Yeah Mexico is just as tropical and much cheaper. As long as you stay in the tourist areas, you're safer than many US cities.
isnt it a fucking state?
@LuckyBaldwin777 but in tourist areas the hotels will extort you under threat of going to jail.
@@SlavTigerIt is, but since it's run by the same party polluting the rest of the West Coast, it's more like a fiefdom and the residents are just serfs to their leige lord.
There is definitely a pattern throughout this nation of using the argument or excuse “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”.
Hawaii Five-0.00
Don't book 'em Dano!
Good one
🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂
@@slyfoxx2973 lol
Top comment.
Who could have guessed that a government owned and operated security force would fall into incompetency and corruption?
As someone who drives for a living these kind of officers scare the shit out of me.
Dash cams brother they are cheap
@@bluehills38 Even with a dash cam, simply being arrested (not convicted) for a DUI can cause you to lose your CDL.
@@gta4everrr oh I totally agree with that! It’s a lose lose situation when they jack someone up knowing they get no ramifications for lying 🤬🤬🤬 And the lying part has to be overturned by SCOTUS 🤷♂️
I wish PDs understood that when they allow corrupt practices to go unaddressed, all it does is shake society's faith in them, and it leads to things like "defund the police" movements.
They don't care. Outside of armed rebellion, there's no true way to "defund the police." Government only takes power, it never relinquishes power.
Remember a police chief with a straight face said they are better at detecting drugs than a lab test.
Like the cop that busted a guy for meth didnt believe the lab results that it was Doughnut Glaze.
full-blown narcissist
FFS
Arrests should never be tied to bonuses/incentives for the officers. Arrests for 0.00 proves the system is corrupt, yet nobody is changing policy/law.
ABQ, NM: A local lawyer was working with several PD in an extortion scam that just came to light. The cop would pull people over and charge them with DUI, even if they blow 0.00, but tell them if they used that specific lawyer they wouldn't be found guilty. One of the victims went to the lawyer in question and got them on audio saying "if you hire me, I can guarantee a not guilty result".
Turns out, you can still be arrested for DUI/DWI even if there is no evidence of intoxication AND no moving infraction.
Better call Saul...
@@chernobyl169 as I understand stand it the officers involved resigned and investigation stopped.
@@tomeauburn Government does more harm than good.
Steve, I live in Honolulu. Most of these arrests are at Fed. Funded DUI checkpoints. They stop every 5th, 10th car so they don’t get accused of targeting certain race of drivers. The officers are under pressure to show a certain number of arrests to get future funding. Just my view from reading our local news.
I think this happens quite often.
These jerks should be sued.
That’s not how you spell shot nor killed.
"Qualifed immunity."
Needs to be changed.
@@LongWalkerActual There is no qualified immunity for violations of constitutional rights, only bad judges.
@@YoungGirlz8463
Yet, it's happening...🤔
@@YoungGirlz8463
Yet, it's happening...🤔
Why are penalties for false arrest far less than the penalties for kidnapping? Oh never mind, I remember now. It’s the multi tiered justice system.
special rights are a crime against humanity.
They have an armed interstate gang, and we're not in it.
Because arrested by police is not even remotely similar to the crime of kidnapping. Unless you are some kind of ideologue or anarchist.
@@JW-mb6tq if they dont have the authority to arrest, and they have restrained or taken people to a different location against their will, then they have committed kidnapping, unless we have a multi tiered justice system. We have a multi tiered justice system where crimes are different depending on a persons relationship to the government.
@@PC-vx6ko Then due process is the persons course of action. Not arbitrarily waxing philosophical to claim kidnapping. If you can’t see a difference between police overstepping their authority and kidnappers you are probably an anarchist. Also I would point out you are diminishing the actual crime of kidnapping with your hyperbolic argument.
Arrested for pissing off a cop.
Not even that sometimes. The cop just needed a victim to make his quota. There's a recent case where young man was extremely polite and sober and the cop still arrested him for DUI after he blew 0.00. A blood test also showed the kid was clean.
Daughter was driving with drunk guys in the car. She blows multiple zeros. Deputies call state patrol saying "breathalyzer must be broken" Trooper came say machine isn't broken and thinking "these deputies are idiots"🎉
Most of them are, being a police officer requires no special abilities or education. Where did the stereotype of Barney Fifes come from?
Wait, so if I'm understanding
She was sober, and was driving intoxicated people around.
And they still wanted to arrest her? For being the designated driver?
I have no faith in our justice system anymore
I remember a friend of a friend had a diabetic episode in California. The Police supervisor kept telling the Officer to arrest the driver. Luckily the Officer was adamant the driver needed to be evaluated by medics due to a possible diabetic emergency. Sure enough the medics tested the patients blood sugar and it was a diabetic emergency. The supervisors push officers to cite or arrest constantly. Its a pressure Officers carry everyday. How supervisors pressure daily quotas is unbelievable and illegal.
Where I live, your friend would still get a ticket for driving while impaired, regardless of the cause of the impairment.
My neighbor smelled like she was drinking 7-7s and acted buzzed. Fortunately my ski patrol training told me the was a diabetic emergency and she got to the er just in time. There was a time when police didn't know how to stop bleeding, that charged. Why aren't they taught to do a quick finger stick or at least ask the person if they are diabetic then get them to the er?
@@app103a trucker I knew was declared disabled due to his diabetes.
I had it happen to me three times. My license has been suspended for 24 yrs. I had no other citations . I was really in a situation that I was lucky to have survived. This was in a small coastal town in Northern Ca
Collect revenue at all costs.
The amount of people saved by field sobriety tests is literally 0. There is always something you did wrong. It's like these tests are made to justify an arrest.
I got pulled over on suspicion of DUI. I don't drink but he swore I reeked of alcohol. Put me thru fields and seemed upset/ disappointed that he couldn't arrest me. Like he tried everything to arrest me. Had to let me go and was pissed.
If they ask you to take the FST they've decided that they want to arrest you. They will do that as soon as they think they have enough evidence.
You never ever have to take them 👍
@@ren808
That doesn't mean the SFSTs saved you from going to jail... it just means they didn't hurt you by putting you in there. But, not hurting is not interchangeable or equivalent with helping.
As cops say in many DUI arrest videos those tests are not pass/fail & they aren't simply misspeaking when they say that. The tests are not designed, nor intended, to differentiate between people who are sober & people who are intoxicated. They are designed to find people who are intoxicated. They are pretty good at accomplishing what they are intending to do, the problem is they also tend to identify a lot of people who are not intoxicated as well. But, because they aren't intended to differentiate between who is sober & who is intoxicated that doesn't matter.
If I remember correctly, the HGN test (the eye test) falsely identifies sober people least often of the 3 but it is still identifies around 35% [it's somewhere like 33%-37% but I don't remember the exact number,] of sober people. It is also the test most likely to be administered improperly with adverse conditions for the person taking part in the test since the officers is actively involved in the test & not simply giving instructions. i.e. An example is that the stimulus the person is meant to follow with their eyes is supposed to move at a specific speed & moving it faster than that begins to quickly degrade the reliability of the test & significantly increase the amount of false positives. Tons of DUI arrest videos I see have the officers moving the stimulus way too fast.
they are there solely for the cops to obtain evidence against you. sobriety tests are not to prove you innocent.
Sounds like HPD is using the Hertz Operational Manual.
My positive experience. Late 80’s at college. I was older, so legal age. Pulled over for failing to turn on headlights in well lit area. Had been drinking beer earlier in the afternoon and told the cops… it was now Saturday night. Taken to station and tested. Blew a 0.06 and was released immediately with zero charges.
The sheriff in Cobb County, GA was interviewed by the local news about a string of DUI arrests by his deputies in which the breathalyzer and blood tests showed no evidence of intoxicants in the arrested persons blood or breath. As I recall this happened 15 times in a year and some of these individuals lives were dramatically negatively impacted by the arrest, which lead to the news teams investigation.
The sheriff told the reporter that his deputies were “better at detecting intoxication than the machines”.
Essentially, in Cobb County GA, If the deputy says you’re intoxicated, you are. Science be damned!
Like taking an 8 hour seminar makes them better than a spectrograph reading 1part per million, its corruption from the top down.
Gotta those Atlanta suburbs!!
Cherokee County Georgia Sheriff said here hold my beer. Don't take a breath test at all, arrest because a driver pulled over too quickly to let you pass when you put on the blue lights and you smelled alcohol.
I am the science!
I lived in Honolulu, HPD is notorious for corruption.
If it is Honolulu PD, they are probably targeting tourists that would have difficulty appearing in court months latter to contest the arrest.
Well I certainly won’t be a tourist there now. Imagine getting your life screwed up when you’re enjoying a vacation while completely sober.
Well, Oahu kinda sucks anyway. Should go to Kauai or the big island, much nicer there.
It's illegal; They can't demand you show up to a state in the middle of the ocean for a ticket. They are required by law to move it within a reasonable distance to where the accused lives.
Any lawyer worth their fee would get it tossed out for being unreasonable.
@@dakota9821 If it is like the speeding ticket I got in El Paso for driving with traffic while having an out of state license plate, they offer the option of just pleading guilty and paying the fine. It's a money grab, pure and simple. It's cheaper to pay the fine than go back and fight it.
That rings true!
In the small town of Cobb, California there is one officer that if he pulls you over for anything and you're under the age of 30, you are going to jail for drunk driving.
*They must be taught to use the words **_Bloodshot Watery Eyes_** at the academy!* _Change My Mind!_
Well in a round about way they are because they are taught that NHTSA considers those to be indicators of impairment. So if they are building a case for a DUI those are things they can easily write down that can pretty much only be corroborated by them.
Its all part of a script.
What if you have double barrel pink eye?
I get bloodshot watery eyes when I take a shower, SO That means.. I'm Guilty.
Don't underestimate the influence of social media and restricted access LE forums. They talk amongst themselves, much like happens amongst prisoners.
All those things weaving running red lights, driving too slow or too fast aren't what we define as crazy, We call that Monday
Nothing beats the COPS episode where the offender tells the officer that he has a glass eye and the officer asks “Which one?”…offender says “ Both!”
lol
Revenue generator at the expense of innocent citizens.
If the cops let you go, then they won't get their bonus/prize/quota.
Monetary incentives for DUI arrests, arrests not convictions with no penalty for the officers for false arrest
Oh yes. I was arrested for being under the influence and I wasn’t. The cop didn’t even pull me over. I was already on the side of the road parked legally. Of the charges were dismissed but I spent 6 hours in jail.
The main problem is that the preliminary test doesn’t test for drugs so the officer can still claim that you are under the influence of “something” and take you in for a blood test.
"Sir, your eyes look glassy - have you been drinking tonight?"
"Officer, your eyes look glazed - have you been eating donuts?"
Was planning on a trip to Oahu later this year. Haven’t purchased tickets, not going to until this is stopped. Honolulu PD is now deterring tourists.
This is not the first time. When you put a profit motive for the police, they will operate this way forever. There are 4 detectives where I live (330,000 citizens) and tons of flatfoots to hand out tickets. One makes money for them, the other not so much.
That is Interesting
@@MarinaOlsgaard - I had my identity stolen. A $35K SUV bought in my name was ran through fast pass toll roads. Pics taken of the thieves. No "resources" to follow up on these pics. I'm guessing if my name was Gavin Newsom, I would have gotten those resources allocated. Eventually, they dumped the SUV in Mexico and the dealer that erroneously sold it to them got it back and it came off my credit report. The cops were 0% help. They took my report and did nothing, even when I spoon fed them ways to get their pics.
All they gotta do is help victims.
How does the average citizen avoid being arrested for DUI *if being completely sober isn't enough???*
100% happened to me and had me in court for 2 years and no license for that time
5 years for me.
And of course you had n[ recourse to recover the real damages, lost wages and opportunities because of the false charges.
How can your license be suspended without a trial and conviction?
@@woodsrdr How can they take money without a criminal conviction with Civil Asset Forfeiture?
@@woodsrdrsummary suspension laws created in the 80s
This is when qualified immunity should not be allowed. The cop should be able to be sued directly instead of having the tax payers pay out.
The police have figured out away to make money of off drunk drivers. Follow the money.
Not all but yaaa
When dismissed in court defendant still pays court costs, so yeah.
Yeah but making money from sober drivers is nuts.
Court costs days off of work.
Lawyers.
It's a scam.
Or sober drivers.
@@MarinaOlsgaard If higher ups and other officers don't correct the issue, it doesn't matter that not all are bad. the system failed you.
Here in Virginia, i was pulled over at 3am for suspected DUI for the famous - now discredited - crossing the white line on the right. I had to walk the line, touch my nose, follow the finger, then blow into a balloon, twice. The cop, astonishingly, apologized. Thought for sure I'd been drinking because my eyes were bloodshot. I had contact lenses at the time and 3am without removing them tore up my eyes. I told him that and he gave me a ticket for speeding instead.
Virginia is where the ABC attacked and arrested a girl for buying bottled water years ago.
The sad thing is that the rules of procedure do say that the officer needs to have articulable probable cause in order to perform the arrest and that they cannot dispose of evidence even if it's exculpatory. Many officers that are willing to arrest despite a 0.00 result will also throw out and not report the result.
Shocking! Yet another example of Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely!
Remember that according to the Hawaii State Supreme Court they have the aloha spirit and don't need to follow what the Constitution says.
Thank you for covering stories about our brave police officers. For any Officers that might read this thank you for your service.
Ask the cop before blowing. "If I blow 0.08 are you going to take me to jail?" Then ask, "If I blow 0.00 are you going to let me go?"
they’ll probably treat that as somewhat of an admission of guilt and hassle you on it, “oh you think you’re gonna blow more?” something like that, they can also still just lie to you, id probably just remain silent
You can't reason with a cop.
@@jessicaanderson7885 it's easier to reason with a toddler for the same reasons
And demand that it is on camera or in writing!!
@@razzberry4756 Remaining silent is also an admission of guilt. Natural human behavior is also an admission of guilt.
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Lawyers will talk to lawyers and realize lawyers are making bank: nothing will be done.
We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
The Civil Rights Lawyer did a similar story.
This happened to my friend in Ct. It took him 6 months and $2000 to get the charges dismissed.
This happens all over the Country. As soon as a cop gets back from "drug recognition expert" training, they think everyone is under the influence of something.
I love how Lehto's Law sounds like something physicists refer to. Phenomenal job on that note. Keep up the good content.
As a retired Federal Agent this is the way I looked at enforcing the law, doing investigations, and arresting individuals. If there was no probable cause that a law was violated or the person was a danger to themselves or others then I had no authority and moved on. My job was to enforce the law and protect the public, protecting the public also means that you don't waste your time on people who do not appear to be conducting criminal activity or are a public safety concern. Instead I would move on to look for real criminals. You cannot arrest someone on suspicion and a gut feeling, you have to be able to detail probable cause and if an exigent information existed which indicated the individual was not conducting criminal activity that must be weighed by the officer as soon as that information is made available. The totality of the information present at the time must be considered before an arrests, not just the facts that support probable cause, but those that point to an individuals innocence as well. Also as a Law Enforcement Officer, while I would go through "proper channels" to report wrong doing or violations in my agency, I also had outside legal council and persuade outside oversite as well because I noticed way to many internal problems were covered up by our own internal affairs unit. I even was threatened once by a supervisor who was an internal affairs officer over a complaint I made, the threat towards me was made to OIG (the Office of the Inspector General), the OIG officer was astonished that the internal affairs officer made the threat towards me, the internal affairs officer then had a coveted foreign assignment rescinded. I still got a Letter of Caution for failure to report incidents, after I reported the incidents, that's how messed up internal affairs often is. Personally I would sue the officer and the department for false arrest, illegal imprisonment, lying on official documents, and for violations of my civil rights, and I think I would win. Most cops are good, but the bad ones and bad policies aimed at stats and revenue must be harshly delt with so the police do only what they are supposed to do really enforce law to protect the people, period.
you weren't trained by idf trained instructors, were you? that's only been a thing for about 20 years now. police academy instructors are literally sent to be trained by a brutal occupational force that never admits wrongdoing regardless of their actions. it shows in the behaviours of police now. they're "never wrong", even when there's overwhelming evidence they're absolutely wrong. couple that to the complete lack of meaningful consequences, and the result is that law enforcement and public safety is no longer the goal, just profiteering and domination.
@@thehellyousay I went two Federal Police Academies in the early 1990s and the second one was pretty brutal. I have to say that our academies have gotten softer not harder over the years and lowered standers considerably now. But I was Federal and there is a very different mentality from local police. I did tons of street work and enforcement with local guys and they are great, but I did notice it was a far less tolerant mindset than Federal. Part of that comes with the territory that they are more "in the trenches" with car stops at night, dealing with domestics, abuse, murders and more gritty and nasty stuff than I usually saw. A problem with a lot of Departments, including my own are stats, the other was monetary seizures and fins (though there is a place for these, they should not be used as a means of funding a police department or city ect). Everything we seized went to a fund to help victims, but it was unfortunately not used that way many times, and it was also shared with locals, which was fine because they were sending us people that they could have used in their own towns. But a big problem in Law Enforcement is the superstar mentality, the guy who runs around doing everything wrong to get stats and then get praised for his work, when his work is built on a pile of bad behavior. Another big problem is the failure to deal with bad or corrupt officers until they do something horrible wrong. I worked with several people who have been since indicted and convicted of various crimes, and I am not suppressed because I pointed out how bad the system was and what the exact problems over a decade before where these people worked. Because the proper safeguards were not put in place that these people were allowed to run wild because they were super stars bringing in big cases, their bad behavior got worse and worse until they were finally arrested.
If you were a cop, you covered for bad cops. Stop making excuses for what you did.
I got convicted for DUI when I blew a 0.00 and did the tests perfectly. I was still ARRESTED me from the side of the road at 2am (I got called into my night shift mid-shift), took me to the station, and then charged me with the DUI. Of COURSE I took that to court, thought it was an easy win.
Day of court, that cop shows up smug as can be, and explains that even though I blew zero and did the tests, he saw visible signs of alcohol, and witnessed me throwing beer cans out of my car window before being pulled over (also false). The judge accepted his "Impeccable record" and asked if I had any proof to contradict him. I had gone through a rather ridiculous process of submitting and verifying my dashcam as evidence, but the judge said it didn't show anything relevant. I asked for a trial, he said the facts were not in dispute, it was a summary judgement situation.
I ASKED for a trial and was refused. I never got to have my case heard. My 380 dollar ticket ballooned to 1,400 in court costs and fees and two lost days of income.
Moral of the story?
F the police.
@@Look_What_You_Did< No content troll account. Who is the liar again?
Sounds like they need a warrant for their arrest.
You can just arrest them for resisting arrest.
Aloha Steve🤙they've (HPD) been doing this for years! We watch your show here in Puna, Hawaii 🌋
This happens all over the country because most states have made the penalties so lucrative. And not just for police, but court fees, lawyers, tow companies even have "enhanced fees" for DUI related towing in some places. A DUI audit in Illinois a few years back showed almost half of cases involved blowing .03 or lower. Why? Because getting the case resolved costs around 15k on average now.
Mother against drunk drivers and federal government give out money to these departments to combat drunk driving,the more arrest weather negative or positive will qualify you for the money this is why they set up these DUI check points
About three decades ago there was a legislator in Vermont who proposed a law that would define DWI for those under 21 as driving with a BAC of 0.0 or higher. It got a lot of laughs. I think they eventually passed a similar law with the limit set at 0.02.
Hawaiian drivers all drive like they're drunk. It's crazy out there
When a prosecutor is looking at a case does “ is this a false arrest?” Ever cross their mind?
I was wondering if it was about another intoxicant… until I heard that the officer TURNED OFF THE CAMERA! I’m betting something personal was going on there.
The blood test was clean;
Never submit to a roadside field sobriety test, it is not legally required (in most states). You are only required to submit a sample if they suspect you're impaired (breath/blood/urine). Submitting to a field sobriety test only gives them the excuse to claim probable cause for arrest.
If they're making you do the test they're taking you. The tests are not used to determine whether or not you're drunk. They are used to generate probable cause and as such will always do so.
@@unknowngamer37415 The point is, don't make it easy for them to make their case. It's a lot more difficult to sweep this kind of arrest under the rug if there's no PC for the arrest. Plus, there's no sense in spinning around on one foot like an idiot if they're just gonna take you anyway.
I have been asked to do a breathalyzer once and was shocked when they let me go after actually blowing 0.00. i figured they suspect me obviously so theyre gonna find (more like make up) some reason to arrest me. But after blowing i guess they beleived that i really had just gotten off a 15 hour shift and was exhausted rather than drunk.
The DUI Guy covers cases like these all the time. All the tests are designed to pin you for the crime, not to determine your innocence. Also Ben is behind the YT plaque.
The officer may believe the driver is under the influence of something other than alcohol, like pills or something.
This makes me think of the incident where the Boston PD arrested a guy for drunk driving but he was actually having a stroke.
Another example of driving while impaired, which is illegal, regardless of the cause.
@@app103 So you get punished for something that is not your fault? What a wonderful country this is... the land of the free, huh?
Great show, love the Batman shirt!
Check out The Civil Rights Lawyer: Country Singer Writes Song About Arrest by Idiot Cop. Then listen to the song... he did a pretty good job. The young man is the poster child for what to do when pulled over.
I'd been looking for this comment, as I was on the same page. Watched that video and the video of the song. He has now released the video with the dash camera in it. It's great.
I wonder if something else was also charged in addition to the DUI.
Maybe they are doing that so they can tell someone they will drop the DUI if the person pleads guilty to a different charge.
Either way, if they blow 0.00, they should NOT be getting a DUI.
When there are no consequences for police wrong doing you eventually get police officers who grossly flout the law. Imagine if speed limits were posted but never enforced: most everyone would speed.
Lisa steed in utah a former police officer ruined so many lives on fake dui charges that she got fired
This is why you never perform any field sobriety tests. As soon as they ask you to step out of the vehicle to determine if you are impaired, they've already decided they are going to arrest you. Refuse the field sobriety test. They will take you in. Remain silent except to ask for them to provide you with an attorney as soon as possible. No matter what time it is, they will call a public defender and put you alone in a room to talk to them. The attorney will tell you what happens if you fail or refuse any breath or blood tests or if they can get a warrant. Take that attorney's advice on what you should do. These police are incentivized to make DUI arrests through promotions, thus they have a financial incentive to do so. Modern police are not the protect and serve type your parents grew up with.
Where do they do that at lmao
@@eddieseaberg1024 do what at?
@@Noneofyourbusiness2000 it's often legal to refuse field sobriety tests but a misdemeanor to refuse the preliminary breathalyzer. You should definitely take that b/c if you don't they will arrest you and do the blood test anyway. And you will still get arrested for the refusal for the preliminary test.
@@venalleader2909 there are only 10 states with implied consent laws where it is a criminal offense to refuse a blood or breathalyzer test, and in no state is it a criminal or civil offense to refuse a field sobriety test. You have a right against self incrimination.
Implied consent can be argued that consent is given when cops are operating within the boundaries of peoples rights and the law. Once they extend the traffic stop longer than necessary to effect the reason for the stop, none of that BS applies.
It's things like this is what's encouraging the defunding of police. When a man of law breaks his own rules, then there is no law.
In MI they can even charge you with DWI (driving while impaired) if you look tired. Ever work a bunch of OT and look like death warmed over on your drive home? Apparently that's enough to be arrested. Not sure how they test for that--
The test could be the officer reads you a bed-time story. If you stay awake, you're good to go.
Leo/cop (criminal of police)
Body cams should come on 5 minutes after removing from charger (including sound) & remain on till returned to the charger .....
Have off switch defeats it purpose I have watched 100s of videos where cops turn off their body cams (especially the sound) & even many times there are multiple cops that turn cams off so they can huddle up like a football team to plan their next play .....
Anytime there is a lapse in body cam footage the case should be dismissed with prejudice
Doesn't the court assume if the defendant hides evidence that it would incriminate said defendant......
Well the same standard should be held to police ESPECIALLY BLATANT BODYCAM BEING TURNED OFF
but hey the one thing the government is really great at is hypocrasy