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Cops with Needles

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve posted repeatedly in the past about a disturbing trend in DUI law enforcement: allowing cops to administer blood draws along the side of a road.  See, for example, Forced Blood Draws in Back Seats, Would You Want a Cop Taking Blood from You? and DUI Cops Now Armed with Guns, Batons and…Needles.  To be more graphic, the citizen pulled over and arrested on suspicion of drunk driving is forcefully restrained (picture pinned down across the hood of the police car) while the arresting cop pulls out his syringe and digs around in the arm trying to find a vein.   This painful and medically dangerous procedure, which started in Texas, Idaho and Utah, is slowly spreading across the country like a plague…and should be in your neighborhood soon...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).