NYPD union to sue over sobriety tests

[sasquatch]

Source: yahoo news

NEW YORK - A police union is going to federal court to challenge a New York Police Department policy to administer breath tests for alcohol to officers who kill or wound someone in the line of duty.

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said Thursday that the 24,000-member union would challenge the new sobriety tests on constitutional grounds, arguing they violate protections against unreasonable searches.

"There is no reason or justification to subject an officer who legally fires a weapon ... to the humiliation and psychological trauma of a mandatory Breathalyzer test," Lynch said in a statement.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/police_shootings_sobriety_tests

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Fucking hypocrits, "it's only ok when we get drunk and break the law but not anybody else ok".
:eyes:

[Mythsaje]

1. Oh, so NOW they understand "reasonable searches."

Go figure.

[sasquatch]

4. Well shit, they didn't believe it'd apply to them one day

[ixion]

8. yep, go figure. they don't like to have their privacy rights voided, but

are sure willing to void others. :grr:

[Tesha]

10. Nobody ever does. :-( You see that here on DU very frequently. (NT)

[noel adamson]

2. So if they did it it must have been legal?

'...Humiliation and psychological trauma?' Are they really that wimpy? No wonder they shoot at everything that moves.

[sasquatch]

3. I wonder if they're trying to make up for their small penises

[truthisfreedom]

5. Methinks you doth protest too much.

Fu*king cops love to drink just as much as any average American citizen. TEST THE COPS.

[acmavm]

6. Where I work if you have any kind of accident that involves injury to

anyone, you are sent immediately to the piss-testers.

Too bad for these police officers. Now they have to live like the rest of us. And its a good thing. There's too many of the bastards running around like they're Blackwater contractors.

[woodsprite]

7. What about those "every X car stops" down Main Street

at DUI checkpoints on Thur, Fri and Sat night? Wouldn't that be considered unreasonable? It's usually about every 5 to 10th car - they detour you into the shopping center.

Hubby said he doesn't want them to just do a breathalyzer test, he wants a drug check too since sometimes their version of "legally" is different from the people's version of "legally".

[Mend]

9. how about testing for anabolic steroids while they are at it....the kind that

gives them taser-rage and boot-camp murderous impulse-rage and see an African-American-rage.

[sasquatch]

11. Well those guys won't be convicted if they're caught though