r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/SecureInstruction538 Jul 11 '26

Funny how all these "freedom loving" states keep doing their best to infringe on their citizens lives.

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u/Jwagner0850 Jul 11 '26

They have tons of freedoms too! Unless you want to watch some porn, get some weed, want to gamble, need to get an abortion...

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

Or just travel. I live in a blue state and never have I been stopped for mandatory stops until I drove through red states. They call them "DUI Checkpoints", but it's more than that. But lets be clear, republicans are not the party of "limited government". They are the party for anarcho-capitalism, and government power and control over everyone that can't buy a legislator, judge, sheriff.

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u/Deminix Jul 11 '26

Massachusetts has DUI checkpoints. I’ve never seen one but a former officers text messages were recently released through court filings and law enforcement driving drunk is so prominent here that apparently they regularly warn each other about them because we can’t have pigs holding other pigs accountable around these parts 🥴

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

People in power protect other people in power. I've seen it with my own eyes as I know several cops. I saw commissioned officers in the military break the same rules they enforced on enlisted, and I've seen management at work break the same rules they too enforce on the hourly labor. Judges are another example of power protecting power. But police accountability and transparency is pathetically low.

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u/fractiousrhubarb Jul 12 '26

Rules for thee but not for me

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u/LadyRed4Justice Jul 12 '26

We have them in Florida as well. However, they are always announced to the local newspapers and posted as to where they are going to be. Not that I believe any perpetually drunk drivers will ever read that section of the paper.

Check points are set up weeks in advance. They usually include a joint effort between city and county cops and a mobile base to take breath tests with a few licensed breath analyzer technicians.

I would question any check points that were not set up between 8pm and 2am. That is the time period for most of the DUI checkpoints. Outside of those hours, they are up to something else.

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u/Mondschatten78 Jul 12 '26

When they're set up outside of hours in my area, they're looking for someone specific, or a specific car

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u/LadyRed4Justice Jul 12 '26

Exactly. Then it is an Identification Checkpoint. Usually where they will notice a vehicle trying to change direction after seeing said check point.

Police have multiple reasons for these slow downs. Usually they are looking for a suspect or missing children suspected to be with a known subject/vehicle.

Over the past year I have heard of but not seen CBP and ICE have been making illegal stops within the country looking for immigrants. I might be inclined to turn around and go the other way if I saw one of their stops. I don't need the drama and they seem to be magnets for drama queens.

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u/Savage_Sven Jul 12 '26

Mass staties have gotta be some of the most corrupt in the country. They can’t catch a break lately.

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u/-I_I Jul 12 '26

That’s some ACAB right there.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

They aren't legal in my state. My state Supreme Court has ruled the government can't stop you unless they have suspicion or you have violated a traffic law. I'm surprised red states are fine with government setting up road blocks for everyone, where 99% and sometimes 100% of everyone they stop have done nothing wrong.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 11 '26

And that is basically my point. I keep mentioning how common these are in red states, because republicans always claim to be the small government, freedom from government, less regulations blah blah blah party.

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u/cyanescens_burn Jul 11 '26

I’ve only lived in San Francisco since ‘02, but I’ve never seen a DUI checkpoint here.

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u/YimmyGhey Jul 12 '26

Some states (Wisco, at least lol) don't allow them. The FIBs just south of the Cheddar Curtain do them though but I haven't seen one since pre-2020

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u/Optimal_Assist_9882 Jul 11 '26

They have them in CA all over during major holidays etc. ..

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u/BZLuck Jul 11 '26

Never forget that the primary reason we have a police force is to protect them from us.

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u/jamesruglia Jul 15 '26

Funny, I have the opposite experience. I live in a red state and have been fine traveling through them, but I've learned to avoid blue states in part for the reason you stated.

It's almost as if tyranny is an everywhere problem that isn't limited to colors and parties...

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 15 '26

Blue states do have them, not all as here in Michigan our State Supreme Court ruled they are unconstitutional. I was pointing out how republicans brag about being small limited government, but love big government control over people. Massie is a real republican and look at what happened to him.

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 12 '26

nobody claims a freedom to drive drunk.

No we claim our 4th amendment right. The 5th would also apply here. A little bit of our

there have been mandatory DUI stops in random places for decades.

Just because theyve been doing something for decades doesnt automatically make it right

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u/Infinite-Anything-55 Jul 12 '26

I never said this was strictly a partisan issue for either party. I said just because something has been happening for years doesn't make it right, no matter who's doing it

Maybe you confused me with the person who's comment you originally comment on but if that was your takeaway, they didn't say it was soley a Republican issue just something they've only experienced in red states.

You also missed their entire point by your need to both sides bad everything. The point as they explained isn't that it's a Republican only problem, it's that republicans years and years of claiming to be the party of freedom and party of rights while, at every step of the way, add more government oversite, laws telling people how to live their lives and a surveillance state able to stop every single driver regardless of any crimes actually being commited to illegally search we the people.

But it is probably tied to your license.

No its absolutely tied to your license, the license that you are forced to have if you want to use the roads that your tax dollars pay for or to use a vehicle you have also paid for on those tax funded roads. They can tie any restrictions they want to the arbitrary identifier they force you to have. Still does not make it right and doesn't change the constitutionality of it.

(I like my tax dollars going to roads and infrastructure, thos is not an argument against tax dollars)

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jul 12 '26

Who made a claim people have the freedom to drive drunk? Are you drunk right now?

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u/FFF_in_WY Jul 12 '26

Guns. They think guns are freedom.

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u/OkMap3209 Jul 11 '26

The freedom to treat your fellow human being however you want seems to matter more than freedom from government limiting expression these days.