NYPD to Waze: Stop snitching on our checkpoints!
 

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Huh. In NJ, anyway, police are required to post advance public notice of DUI checkpoints.

I don't see how this could possibly be enforced. Is it illegal to call up your friend and tell them there's a checkpoint somewhere on public roads? I can't see that as possible.

Ham handed blunt force ineffective intimidation is all I see this as.

Does NYPD really think the app reports checkpoints? They must be as stupid as the so called leader of the USA.

Or maybe I need an update for Waze, as it only notifies me of police, it doesn't specify checkpoint.

Also, I didn't know until yesterday that Google owns Waze, might explain issues with Apple carplay

That's standard police MO.

What's hilarious is that it used to be always in the same place .West Houston (not pronounced liked the Texan Houston mind you) Street just before the Hudson...

HOW-ston!

Comments can be added to any alert though that will specify that there's a checkpoint there...that's what the article is saying happens.

Still an idiotic position to take by the PD

Didn't know this, but I usually do my reporting while connected thru GM's interface on dash touchscreen, not on my phone.

Pretty sure GM doesn't allow comments, or I haven't figured out how to use that, one or the other

Typical NYPD overreach..

One thing to call your friend you know is late for a job interview and say, "Hey, there's a police checkpoint ahead looking for drunks that's snarling traffic. If you bypass it, you'll save 15 minutes."

Something else to call your buddy that's had 18 beers in the last five hours and say, "Hey, there's a police checkpoint ahead looking for drunks and I know you're smashed. If you bypass it, you probably won't get busted."

I have to tell you this is really interesting, i don’t like the whole police involvement on an app like waze but I also don’t like the idea of a person drinking and driving getting away with it ...

I think we all worry at night especially with our kids on the road that a driver coming at us or them on a two lane road might be drunk and could cross over and crash into us/them.

This is a reality and is scary as shit.

Of course I would never endorse enabling someone drunk off their ass. Shouldn't need to say that, but I guess i felt the need to say it.

I guess I thought the NJ advance notice requirement was common, so the idea of trying to shut down Waze comms just seemed especially asinine to me.

That being said, if I had a glass of wine or two at a two hour dinner, knew I was still fine and well under .08, I'd probably still want to avoid the checkpoint and the associated potential hassle involved. I don't think that's unreasonable.

If the cops want to randomly stop and harass people, and have a good chance of actually catching someone that's DUI, then have them wait at the exits of bar parking lots. At least there, the search is properly targeted. Otherwise, to me, they're just putting on a show of intimidation, and putting out people that aren't doing anything wrong.

Yeah, I'll leave bars and invariably see people leaving whose driving is obviously impaired. I have no problem with them getting busted immediately. (Because their driving is obviously impaired, not just because they're pulling out of a bar)