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No habla ingles

By Shawn Matlock

It sounds too ridiculous to be true.  If anyone should know what crimes the police can charge you with, it should be the police, right?  I mean am I asking too much for the cops to know what the hell they are doing?  Really?Well, apparently not so much with the Dallas Police Department.  The DPD decided to give a number of drivers some tickets for not speaking English.  Yep, you read that correctly.  Not.  Speaking.  English.According to a number of stories over the last several days, the DPD has ticketed almost 40 different drivers over the last three years for being a non-English speaking driver.  The problem is that's not against the law.  Now admittedly, there is a federal law for commercial drivers dealing with this, and there is the infamous 287(g) federal program that deputizes some local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on October 29, 2009 (boomark / email).