Click It or Ticket event held at Battleship

I'm willing to bet you received a seat belt ticket. Is that why you are so sore about this?

This is not about seat belts. They are really dwi checkpoints in disguise.

The click it and ticket are tactics of cold war.

Ver are der papers. Papers please.

No papers?

No soup for you!

Charged with what responsibility??? Enforcing the law? That is their job, that is what they are suppose to do. Whether they decide to conduct a driver's license check point or a seatbelt check point doesn't matter, the fact is they are doing their job by enforcing the law. And from what I heard they handed out SEVERAL seatbelt citations which is beyond me since there were signs up saying to put on your seatbelt and there was a checkpoint ahead. You would really have to be a moron to get a ticket at one of those checkpoints

To quote Cool Hand Luke

"calling it your job doesn't make it right boss"

In the case where you have taken an oath to uphold the law, as all law enforcement has, then it is your job and it is right, Boss!

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey for the national symbol too.

Wait until they decide they don't need probable cause to search your house.
Wait until they decide they don't need probable cause to search your bank accounts.

Seems to me, many have hidden behind oaths.
Many have been prosecuted for things they did in the name of the law.

As for me, any search, any time, in these United States, without probable cause or a search warrant is a violation of my personal freedoms.

You may be happy with it. I'm not.

I would just like to comment about people riding in the back of a pick up truck also without a seat belt, but the driver and occupants in the cab have to wear one. Whats wrong with that picture?

It is $100 or more now. I agree that the police should not be able to do random checks, but they should be able to stop you for speeding or reckless driving, DUI. they should impound your vehicle and keep it for a month for a dui. Second offense they should keep it and not give it back as well as your drivers license.

People can complain about police checking seat belts and writing tickets but when we're (yes I'm a Police Officer) the ones that have to come scrape your sorry rear end off the road when you aren't wearing your seatbelt, you can see why we want people to wear them.

People that choose to smoke know the risks involved but choose to do it anyway. Children should be required to wear them but an adult should be free to make that choice. I am in the public service field as well and have seen both instances. Dead with or without a seatbelt. You can quote stats that wearing a sealtbelt may increase your chance of survival but once again if the good Lord calls you ain't no seatbelt going to help you. Lets worry about the cell phone users that drive and talk. Give them tickets all day long. They cost more lives and harm than those not wearing a seatbelt.

I've worked in several ER's in NC and ALL of the fatalities in car wrecks were the passengers NOT wearing seatbelts. And who do you think pays the bill for the fools that get injured and have no medical insurance who "chose" to not wear their seatbelts?? You and me buddy!! And I agree about the smoking thing because guess who else is paying for the medical treatment for the non-insured smokers??

I do agree with you 100%, but what I want to know is, why is there a double standard. As mentioned above, people riding in the back of a pick up truck, they are not wearing seat belts (which in the way I think, there should be a law against, and in the event an accident happened how many of these would be mangled or killed? I agree every should wear a seat belt, I do and I would not be caught without one. But when I see and hear about kids in school buses, riding in the back of pick up trucks, riding motor scooters / cycles / ATV's being injuried and or killed, I always think about the double standards that some of our laws have.