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While I don't deny the questionable Legalities of such check points it is foolish to claim they are not effective. The effectiveness is the reason the SCOTUS has just had to tilt the scale in the favor of the check points. The numbers of impaired drivers taken at these checkpoints surprise everyone, several times I have heard that the checkpoints had to be shut down early because of too many drunks. Then the Centers for Disease Control releases it's study that states with DUI checkpoints have 20% less road fatalities. You just can't argue that they are unproductive. We advertise there time and location on the news, setup with signs and lights ahead of time just to gave some drunk pull up drinking in the line. It amazes me how productive they are.

Unofficially that does appear to be the norm.

I can actually understand that, I don't know your current situation. Go for it, if it does not work for you won't be out much.

Oh unarmed pay tops out at about $10 a hour unless you are working more as a private(corporation) guard/detective. Armed pay is normally $10-13 a hour and expect to get laid off a lot. You can always find work though around December though. The ultimate goal is to have your own company, can be stressfull though balancing contracts and personnel. Maybe you could work into a government contract or one of the few government guard positions. Some of the highest paid guards are the DOE contract guards and the TVA contract guards, they are making around $18 a hour, almost all are prior military, police, and EMT's.

I have never been a security guard but basically you can get hired as an unarmed guard making min wage and maybe a little more. They will put you through the class and deduct the license fee from your check. You will carry your license if you leave and look for another job. As far as armed expect to work unarmed for a long time and stand the possibility of never getting the chance to go armed though. Most places, the few with armed guards, hire people who spend the $300 out of pocket to already have their license and training. There am be a place in Murfessboro doing armed guard training but you may have to go to Nashville. Good luck.

I would like to share my first DUI checkpoint story. I was a young officer, I had been in the traffic unit a few months and had a few DUI's under my belt. I encouraged my office that we do a DUI checkpoint on a New Years Eve. My department talked back and forth with the DA and other necessary people. They said no, but we could do it on Dec30 from 7pm until 11pm, at a particular location that sucked. We took about 8 officers out there. This location was terrible, we essentially setup at a dead end road, stopping every 4th vehicle. This was only about 10 vehicles an hour, surprisingly we did find a suspended license. I actually felt like an ass since I had been complaining about the time and location they allowed us. It came time to start wrapping it up, I think we had shutdown the lights and picked up a few cones. I hear tires screeching when this guy came crashing through our checkpoint in an Exterra. The officers were actually trying to divert him around us. He stops and is crashed over the steering wheel, I get him to exit the vehicle and he sprawls his arms out on the side of the vehicle. This dude was trashed, he couldn't stand nor talk. We couldn't even do any of the SFST's he was so intoxicated. His BrAC was actually a little lower than I thought it would have been. Afterwards we were all talking about how bizarre the incident was and what a blessing of faith that we were where we were when we were. Since then it has been my experience that you don't even have to talk to people, much less ask questions during DUI checkpoints to score big with one. They will find you.

It is marketing, the same reason some athletes get paid to wear, eat, or drink a product we pay money for. The reason there is a 500% markup on guns is because we are paying for research and design as well as for gun manufacturers to fight for our rights and hire lobbiest.

There are over a dozen appellate court decisions concerning DUI checkpoints, not a single one has declared a DUI checkpoint unconstitutional. Some may have violated a state law and many may have had a single action suppressed in the courts, but DUI checkpoints as a whole not a violation of constitutional rights.

The final word, Michigan v Sitz, on DUI checkpoints is that as long as public safety is the goal and the legal guidelines are met they are constitutional.

In the video of the idiot kid from Rutherford county I strongly sided with the the deputy. It was a DUI checkpoint and I would have had every suspicion in the world that something wasn't right. If you have stopped a DUI, not rolling the window down all the way is something they try. If I remember correctly, in TN, only the THP can do ID check points. I am assuming this is because they(there parent agency) are the issuing authority for DL. Some of these Immigration and Custom Enforcement ID check points in border states I don't know why they are so hesitant bout showing ID and cooperating.

Nothing I can say will help the situation. Just telling me why you were calling him tells me how good of a guy he must have been, letting you borrow his dies. I bet those dies will now become you most cherished possession.

I remember when that happened. He should fry. I believe both of the guys were SF, we're they not? I actually thought the guy had the police pinned down upstairs so they couldn't even exit the house, he either had a Glock 30 or 21.

They like drama, I bet many of them have had affairs and "accidentally" ran into their spouse while on a date. No seriously, they feel violated and they are not as smart as they think they are. What is even crazier is watching these officers who actually do have a right to demand ID beat around the bush. They have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to do an investigative detention is all they need to say. An old court case Hiibel v 6th judicial circuit of Nevada determined that police have the right to demand ID when they have reasonable suspicion. It is questionable during these ID checks and DUI checks though, being the destructive nature of DUI offenders so far DUI checks have stood, it may get more interesting in the future though.

I obviously have forgotten some of the crap but I miss it more everyday. I really miss Afghanistan, being there I had dreams and endless possibilities in my future. They were rough times but I would love to live them all over again.

Why would you not take advantage of multiple reputable trainers? Are you going to take a one day course and be an "expert" gunfighter?

There is another small exception but it can be complicated. Are either of you Active Duty Military?

Over the last few years I have seen people, yet still very marketable, land great jobs through the staffing agencies. I wouldn't have believed it but I have seen it more than once.

It may be that I am just not knowledgeable but I would stay east of Nashville. I just don't see a lot of jobs to the west. Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville are all pretty hoping with jobs.

Topix, boarding up the windows and cutting the lights out at midnight, I was agreeing to it all.

Without seeing your name and location I knew this had to be Dayton.

The grand jury testimony will occur at their next session, whenever that is. Small counties do them quarterly but Davidson County probably does it once a month or more. They could skip a session if they so choose. Oh and you can bet it gets true billed.

It's not too bad using one if the grass isn't too high. If its a warm season turf grass it actually looks better. Once the blades get dull it's tough and they are tough to sharpen.

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Voles don't eat grubs. They eat plant roots.

I don't like using LiDAR(laser) unless I have to with heavy traffic or some other circumstance. I have been so focused on targeting vehicles I had someone walk right up on me and I didn't know it. Like wise, I don't like for motorist to actually know I am running speed enforcement. I sit in the open with the radar antenna or gun hidden acting like I am just watching vehicles. I rarely sit anyway and LiDAR can't be used moving so I ride around wit my moving radar on standby with my thumb on the instant on. True if your detector goes off with Laser they already know your speed.