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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Police State Madness: Cops In DUI Vans Drawing Motorists' Blood
If the public meekly accepts this invasive and horrific practice of allowing police to conduct forced blood draws, then forced DNA swabs cannot be far behind.
Via MassPrivateI blog,
Halloween is less than six months away but that has not stopped law
enforcement from taking people's blood. In fact, police officers want
our blood so bad that they are purchasing blood draw vans, sorry I meant
DUI vans like the one pictured below.
Last year, I wrote an article about
police officers forcing hospitals to draw a drunk or drugged suspect's
blood. But what I could never have imagined is that within a year,
police officers would be physically drawing motorists' blood.
A recent article in Pew Charitable Trusts revealed that police in at least nine states, use DUI vans to draw people's blood.
"A DUI police van equipped with a special chair and table for blood testing pulled up. The man refused to submit to a blood draw. So Phoenix Police Det. Kemp Layden grabbed his laptop and filled out an electronic warrant, or e-warrant, which was transmitted directly to a judge."
What makes this story so disturbing is that typically a person must be a certified phlebotomist or healthcare professional who is trained to draw blood from a patient in a safe and sanitary manner. But as you can imagine that is not what is happening. credit: Pewtrust
"Within 10 minutes, Layden had a search warrant. Another
officer drew the man’s blood. A lab report later confirmed he had active
THC and a sedative in his blood."
I will eat my hat, if law enforcement claims their vans and police
departments are sanitary. Alleging that police officers should be
treated like healthcare professionals and be allowed to physically draw
blood from a person is obscene.
As the article reveals, the real reason why police officers want our blood is to "save money because they don’t need to pay phlebotomists and hospitals for blood draws."
I cannot possibly discuss all the different things that could go
wrong with police officers drawing blood, so I will only focus on two.
When a police officer calls a DUI blood van to forcibly draw a
person's blood based on a hunch that they might be on drugs or drunk, we no longer have a Bill of Rights to protect us.
As attorney John Whitehead said, forced blood draws make a mockery of the Fourth Amendment. The act of merely driving on state owned roads should not mean that we give up our rights.
In Massachusetts, judges are starting to question so-called Drug Recognition Expert police officers who claim to have special senses that can detect if a person is impaired. What sort of country refers to forcibly drawing Americans blood as a "game-changer?"
The International Association of Police Chiefs, which is the
mouthpiece of law enforcement, cannot wait for vampire cops to draw
motorists. blood.
"Together, the blood tests and e-warrants could be a game-changer in law enforcement,”
said Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Police Chief Steven Casstevens, the
incoming president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
When law enforcement has judges on-call to issue e-warrants within
minutes. It is like having a fellow cop on-call authorizing the
shredding of our rights.
“There’s an absolute potential for a dilution of a
citizen’s constitutional protections against unreasonable search and
seizure when it’s done that way,” said Donald Ramsell, a
Wheaton, Illinois, DUI attorney and Illinois Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers board member. “A judge can just wake up in his bedroom
and hit ‘accept’ [on his device] and go back to sleep.”
Attorney Ramsell is correct; having judge's on-call to OK, e-warrants
without second guessing a police officer's hunch will have major civil
rights implications. If the public meekly accepts this invasive and horrific practice of allowing police to conduct forced blood draws, then forced DNA swabs cannot be far behind.
As a teenager, I watched hundreds of horror movies but I never once
had nightmares that police would FORCIBLY take blood from Americans! But
times have changed and it won't be long before Hollywood makes a law
enforcement reality blood draw, TV show.
Here are a few names for their new show.
Instead of calling it Hawaii Five-O why not call it Hawaii Type O or call The First 48, The First Blood Draws. Last but not least, why not rename Blue Bloods the Blood Suckers? As I said before, allowing police officers to conduct their
own blood draws is a monumentally bad idea that will have major civil
rights implications for everyone.