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San Angelo checkpoint cites mostly economic crimes

DWI checkpoints are supposedly banned in Texas (or at least the legislation which would supposedly authorize them failed to pass in 2009) so I'm not sure how the Sheriff in San Angelo can justify checkpoints for insurance and drivers licenses - "Show me your papers, Comrade!" From the San Angelo Standard Times (Oct. 28):More than one of every six vehicles stopped in a two-hour checkpoint in San Angelo on Wednesday morning received a citation, the San Angelo Police Department said. The police, Tom Green County Sheriff?s deputies and San Angelo City Marshals conducted the checkpoint from 8:15 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. in the 300 block of East Avenue L, stopping 585 vehicles, said Lt, David Howard, a San Angelo police spokesman.Citations included 50 tickets for no insurance, 28 for driver?s license violations, 24 for other violations such as expired or missing registration or inspection, and two warnings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 30, 2010 (boomark / email).