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Los Angeles Police Department officers manning sobriety checkpoints will no longer, as a matter of department policy, impound cars driven by unlicensed drivers. That is unless the unlicensed driver is a United States citizen or lawful resident, in which case he can say adios to his car for 30 days, as authorized by California law.
I can see you out there shaking your heads and saying, Wait a minute . . . . Yes, you read it correctly: Two drivers are stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Los Angeles and both are found to be sober, but lacking a drivers license. The first, a U.S. citizen, receives a citation and stands by and watches as his car is towed away to the impound yard, where it will remain for a month so as to impress upon him that driving is a privilege, not a right, and that the people of the state of California extend that privilege only to those who have demonstrated some minimal level of proficiency as signified by possession of a drivers license.
The second unlicensed driver, an illegal immigrant from, lets just say Mexico, is also issued a citation, but he is given a reasonable period of time to give custody of his car to a licensed driver, who will presumably drive it to the unlicensed drivers home or just around the corner and out of the cops view where the unlicensed driver will be free to jump back behind the wheel and ply the roadways until he has the misfortune of running into another one of those bothersome sobriety checkpoints, where the process can begin anew. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The change in policy was announced last week by LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who called it a question of fairness. Im tired of casting the net so wide, Beck told reporters. This is the right thing to do. There is a fairness issue here and were trying to balance the needs of all segments of our community and keep the roads safe.
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Just when you think CA can't get any crazier...