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Are DUI checkpoints still a thing in Baton Rouge?
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:07 pm
This board seemed littered with this topic 2-3 years ago and it seems like they're nonexistent nowadays.
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Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:09 pm to Paul Allen
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This board seemed littered with this topic 2-3 years ago and it seems like they're nonexistent nowadays.
All the people that had to worry about them are now locked up. And no TD in lock up!
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:09 pm to Paul Allen
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This board seemed littered with this topic 2-3 years ago and it seems like they're nonexistent nowadays.
all the drunks either grew up or lost their license.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:11 pm to Paul Allen
Now that you mention it, I haven't seen a dui checkpoint around town in a long while. I wonder if having all the protestors that were bused in for the sterling shooting that got arrested/paid bail made up for the quota this year.
This post was edited on 12/12/16 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:13 pm to Paul Allen
Baton Rouge has Uber now. I guarantee you not as many LSU students have gotten DUIs because of that.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:15 pm to RTN
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Baton Rouge has Uber now. I guarantee you not as many LSU students have gotten DUIs because of that
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UBER is awesome
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:21 pm to CuseTiger
It's been definitely over a year since I've seen or heard mention of one. They were ubiquitous at one point.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:22 pm to RTN
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Baton Rouge has Uber now. I guarantee you not as many LSU students have gotten DUIs because of that.
I'm just waiting for the story to come out..... "Drunk Uber Driver Gets DWI"
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:30 pm to Paul Allen
I think they went out around the time Jeff Leduff (sp?) retired.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:35 pm to Paul Allen
Uber killed them
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:36 pm to RTN
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Baton Rouge has Uber now. I guarantee you not as many LSU students have gotten DUIs because of that.
DUIs were down nearly 20% in ubers first year in Baton Rouge
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:56 pm to adamb2151
This is your answer. The guys that were running the DWI Task Force and scamming your taxes for six-digit pensions all retired.
LINK
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Such a working life might not appeal to you, but that is what one Baton Rouge police lieutenant apparently did last year, recording a whopping 2,696.67 hours of overtime.
Lt. Cory Reech used that overtime last year to more than triple his base salary, taking home nearly $191,000 and becoming the highest-paid city-parish employee, outpacing Mayor Kip Holden by nearly $55,000. While Reech, who heads the police department's DWI task force, is far and away the leader in the department's overtime hours, several other task force members also collected significant overtime checks. All told, eight officers, including Reech, saw their overtime compensation last year surpass their base salary. All were on the DWI task force, either full-time or part-time.
LINK
Posted on 12/12/16 at 1:58 pm to jbgleason
He needs to be witchhunted
Posted on 12/12/16 at 2:27 pm to RTN
I don't drink and drive anymore since I've been using Uber. It's just too easy to click a button and get a ride somewhere. They'll be at my house within 5 minutes, and I/you don't have to worry about drinking and driving.
I'm sure the arrests went down significantly, but think about how many people were doing it and not getting arrested. That's hundreds of people in a medium-sized city.
One odd thing.....I never heard about MADD women fighting tooth and nail against places that weren't allowing Uber
I'm sure the arrests went down significantly, but think about how many people were doing it and not getting arrested. That's hundreds of people in a medium-sized city.
One odd thing.....I never heard about MADD women fighting tooth and nail against places that weren't allowing Uber
Posted on 12/12/16 at 2:44 pm to redneck
Uber is great
Posted on 12/12/16 at 3:07 pm to Hammertime
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MADD women fighting tooth and nail
I'd imagine a portion of their funding is provided by DWI arrests...
Posted on 12/12/16 at 3:34 pm to jbgleason
That's 51.8 hours of overtime a week. I don't know what normal cop hours are, but assuming regular 40 hour work weeks, he must not do much else. Or he's lying.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 3:40 pm to jbgleason
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This is your answer. The guys that were running the DWI Task Force and scamming your taxes for six-digit pensions all retired.
Holy frick.
Posted on 12/12/16 at 3:56 pm to cbi8
Thread from Feb 2015 discussing the overtime hours. I think I remember someone also finding a Facebook page where the guy ran a BBQ catering place on the side. I could be wrong though.
LINK to previous OT thread
LINK to previous OT thread
Posted on 12/12/16 at 4:03 pm to oVo
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He needs to be witchhunted
Yea he's a cool dude and could be seen on bicycle at every single downtown event. He volunteered and worked the hours allowed. He didn't do anything thing wrong like double dip or some shite you see sometimes.
It probably helped that He was miserably married and averaged over 80 actual hrs(do the math for OT).
But he's happy now and won't be working that many hours anymore, even if they're available.
I can tell ya that.
Eta: sorry not the top guy. But one of the top few listed in 2014 news reports. Can't speak on Reech.
This post was edited on 12/12/16 at 4:20 pm
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