TheNewspaper.com Roundup: June 4, 2018
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Move Over Cams to Ticket Cars traveling speed limit (What?)– –IA Supremes cracks down on CAF auto seizures– –US Supremes Reject Driveway Snooping– Friday, June 1, 2018 Move Over Cameras To Ticket Vehicles Traveling The Speed Limit Drivers who are obeying the speed limit may still be at risk of […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: April 23, 2018
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Cops need warrant for car black box data in MO– –Judge scolds Detroit cops for lying about traffic stops– –UT Supremes will decide whether cops violated CAF Ban– Friday, April 20, 2018 Missouri Court Protects Black Box Data From Cops If police want to snoop through a vehicle’s black box […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture—Why should we care?
Originally created to break drug lords, civil asset forfeiture or CAF has now morphed into an anything-goes situation when it comes to law enforcement confiscating cash and property. Make no mistake, CAF is a constitutional rights issue. The Fourth Amendment protects not only a person’s right to privacy but freedom from arbitrary governmental intrusions. The […]
The Drug Whisperers
You may have heard about people getting speeding tickets not based on the reading of a radar gun or other instrument subject to empirical verification but solely on the basis of an armed government worker’s “training,” his estimation — that is, his or her opinion — about how fast the alleged offender was traveling. In […]
What is a Speed Trap?
When most people think about speed traps, they think about small town police hiding behind billboards or waiting to pick off motorists right where the speed limit changes. But the real answer is much simpler: A speed trap exists wherever traffic enforcement is focused on extracting revenue from drivers instead of improving safety, made possible […]
NMA Lobbying in DC, Part 2 – License to Steal: NMA E-Newsletter #465
I get annoyed by the overuse of certain clichéd buzzwords and catch phrases in our area of advocacy, terms like “big brother,” “nanny state,” and “taxation by citation” for instance. That isn’t to say that they don’t sneak into the NMA vernacular from time to time. In fact, I used the golden oldie “highway robbery” […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: December 4, 2017
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –NMA Takes on Ride Sharing Privacy– –Smog Checks Pointless with Modern Cars– –PA Supremes reject idea that looking at GPS is suspicious– Friday, December 1, 2017 National Motorists Association Takes On Ride Sharing Privacy The National Motorists Association (NMA) last week warned the US Supreme Court about the potential for […]
NMA Lobbying in DC, Part 1 – Reeling in Traffic Enforcement: NMA E-Newsletter #464
Enabled by contributors to our Spring 2017 Campaign, the NMA is pursuing its 2017-18 National Legislative Agenda in Washington. More precisely the current focus is on two of the agenda items – eliminating federally funded ticket blitzes and restricting the bounds of civil asset forfeiture. Part 2 of this newsletter in coming weeks will describe […]
Next Generation Police Tools: NMA E-Newsletter #462
Traffic enforcement continues to go high tech beyond just the newest drone technology. Here are three recent examples of how police are using federal and state funding – some from assets seized from citizenry – to patrol motorists. Police Body Cameras In late October, results from a large study on police body cameras was released […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: November 6, 2017
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Fed Court upholds rights of Left Lane Slowpokes– –Motorists sues Feds over CAF — –OK Court backs car tax hike– Friday, November 3, 2017 Texas: Federal Court Upholds Rights Of Left-Lane Bandits Dawdling in the fast lane on a freeway is a protected right in Texas according to one federal […]