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[Southern man]

Originally Posted by Desert kid

Can anyone else here on the forum back up the claim of being stopped at a Mississippi roadblock?

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I can't back up the claim. I lived there (Ocean Springs) three years (2005-2008), and covered a lot of the state and I never saw a roadblock. None of my friends ever said anything about roadblocks, so I presume they had not encountered any.
However a few years back ,there were comments on the net about people being stopped in Louisiana and if they had large amounts of cash, having it confiscated. During my travels I never ran into it.

[Robert_J]

I was stopped a few months ago leaving Harrah's Casino by the Tunica County Sheriff's office. They asked for license and proof of insurance. The guy was a little close to me and probably trying to see if he smelled booze but I wasn't drinking. If I hadn't been lazy about it, I would have asked how he liked running an unconstitutional checkpoint. I was polite and went on my way.

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by Southern man

I can't back up the claim. I lived there (Ocean Springs) three years (2005-2008), and covered a lot of the state and I never saw a roadblock. None of my friends ever said anything about roadblocks, so I presume they had not encountered any.
However a few years back ,there were comments on the net about people being stopped in Louisiana and if they had large amounts of cash, having it confiscated. During my travels I never ran into it.

Originally Posted by Robert_J

I was stopped a few months ago leaving Harrah's Casino by the Tunica County Sheriff's office. They asked for license and proof of insurance. The guy was a little close to me and probably trying to see if he smelled booze but I wasn't drinking. If I hadn't been lazy about it, I would have asked how he liked running an unconstitutional checkpoint. I was polite and went on my way.

Outside of the rare occasion, I'm fairly certain I'll be okay.

After all, that speed trap they had set up here, I never once got caught in it.

[jdg92]

Originally Posted by DiogenesofJackson

My point is the following: have lived in Michigan, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, and now Florida and I've never experienced the intimidation associated with a Mississippi road block. In fact, my very first road block experience was in Mississippi. It detained me and quite a few other motorists for about 45 minutes. When I got to the cop checking DLs, he asked me who I was, where I was going, where I've been, etc. which I thought was a little over the top.

Yes, AZ and MS are very similar. They happened to be populated by virulent racists and I believe every Mississippi county has a less vocal version of a Joe Arpaio.

Believe me, you live in Mississippi for more than 30 days and you will experience a Mississippi road block. Generally speaking, those conducted by the highway patrol are preferable to the ones operated by county sheriff's departments. Road blocks are high politics in Mississippi as well. Cops use them to rack up fines and citations, which they then use to justify their budgets. Back in the early 2000s, the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Chief Frank Melton (later Jackson mayor) decided that he would set up state police roadblocks in places like High Street (downtown Jackson) and on Hwy 463 in Madison (elite homeowners' area). White Mississippians went berserk and it cost Melton his job (later he successfully ran for mayor of Jackson).

Earlier you asked about further encouragement for graduate school and here it is: be sure that you know what academic history is--that is the academic discipline of history as engaged in an institution of higher learning. When I was in grad school, we routinely got in these "travelers" is what I called them--people who didn't have any idea of what academic history is. Mostly these travelers merely wanted to write chronologies and history in an institution of higher learning goes far beyond chronologies of facts and events. This made things quite difficult for these travelers who never seemed to get it that history is about why and how events occurred--and that history is an argument with at best probabilities rather than proofs.

Also, it's best to be genuine if you seek an advanced degree in history. When you suggest that UNLV's "Rebels" is the same as Ole Miss "Rebels" (as you did in an earlier post), even though you're familiar with Coski's work on the subject, reveals that you're somewhat disingenuous.

Are these roadblocks in rural areas or cities as well. I go to school at Millsaps in Jackson and I drive off campus and around town almost every day and have yet to see any roadblocks. When I go home to New Orleans, I take I-55 so I would doubt that they would do anything on a federally funded interstate highway. I am seriously having a hard time believing this (even for Mississippi...)

[jdg92]

Originally Posted by Robert_J

I was stopped a few months ago leaving Harrah's Casino by the Tunica County Sheriff's office. They asked for license and proof of insurance. The guy was a little close to me and probably trying to see if he smelled booze but I wasn't drinking. If I hadn't been lazy about it, I would have asked how he liked running an unconstitutional checkpoint. I was polite and went on my way.

In the New Orleans metro area the police have conducted "sobriety checkpoints" on the weekend nights. It's been a long time since I've seen it happen though. They just ask the driver if they have been drinking or doing drugs and the driver just answers the two questions and then they are free to go if they appear to be telling the truth about driving sober. I don't think it's unconstitutional. If you haven't been drinking or doing drugs then you shouldn't be afraid at all.

[Robert_J]

Originally Posted by jdg92

In the New Orleans metro area the police have conducted "sobriety checkpoints" on the weekend nights. It's been a long time since I've seen it happen though. They just ask the driver if they have been drinking or doing drugs and the driver just answers the two questions and then they are free to go if they appear to be telling the truth about driving sober. I don't think it's unconstitutional.

There was no probable cause for me to interact with the police. I was just driving down the road.

Originally Posted by jdg92

If you haven't been drinking or doing drugs then you shouldn't be afraid at all.

I don't talk about terrorist activities on the phone so I shouldn't care that the NSA is gathering data on me. I don't do anything illegal in my back yard so I shouldn't care if the FBI has a drone monitoring me. I don't do anything illegal in my house so I shouldn't care if the local police kick in my door and snoop around a little.

My last post on the subject or I'll probably get another warning from the moderators.

[KaoCT]

Originally Posted by Desert kid

Can anyone else here on the forum back up the claim of being stopped at a Mississippi roadblock?

Yep, I've been in five. I can remember when and where because I was amazed (and annoyed) that they happened so often.

July 4th weekend 2011 - roadblock on the Rte 49 onramp from I-55.
Christmas week 2011 - roadblock in the afternoon on Rte 28 in Mize (Smith County). The next evening we were stopped in TWO roadblocks - one in Magee and 20 minutes later another one in Mize.
Last month I got stopped around 7:30 pm on Rte 18 in Puckett.

[JacksonPanther]

Got stopped in one last night (July 5th, after midnight), on I220 south in Jackson, south of the Hanging Moss exit. They also put a roadblock on the exit, so you couldn't jump off the highway to avoid the 220 roadblock.

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[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by DiogenesofJackson

My point is the following: have lived in Michigan, California, Mississippi, Louisiana, and now Florida ...................

Most interesting.

Because on Feb 20th, you gave your address as Louisiana, and said this:

Okay, so I've lived in my present state of residence for quite some time now, nearly ten years. I've never filed a tax return because they only allow certain electronic forms and you have to buy software to do it. To file by paper, you need to track down a form and let's be real--I'm busy. Every time I've tried to track down a state form, the library or gov. office doesn't have any. So for nearly 10 years now, I've blown it off.

So in Feb of 2013, you lived in Louisiana, and now you live in Florida. But in 2003 you lived in Mississippi. Maybe. For a while. Assuming a 20 year retirement for most police officers, that means that HALF of the police officers now in service were not yet police officers when you claim you were here.

All this "information" is a little old, isn't it?

[Desert kid]

Are these particularly things to worry about? I can assure everyone that I am not into anything nefarious.