I have to say the concept is pretty offensive. If I saw that a restaurant was hosting police in the window to check on me as I picked up my food I would cease all patronage of the restaurant.
I don’t see what’s so offensive about this. Undercover cops are suddenly an invasion of your privacy when you’re in public?
I think it’s a great idea. What’s offensive about it? A fast food restaurant is a public place, so there’s no privacy issue. If you’re not drinking and driving, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
I think it’s a great idea. When my wife worked late night drive-thrus years ago she was amazed at how many drunk drivers went through. I have no sympathy for them. They deserve to get caught.
How is this the least bit offensive? you should be going out of your way to go to the restaurants keeping drunk drivers of the street.
Why? 'Cause you make a habit of drunk-driving to Wendy’s?
If they’ve identified fast-food drive-throughs as a place with a high concentration of drunk drivers, then they should capitalize on that. Besides, it’s probably easier and safer to apprehend them while they’re waiting for a Whopper than while they’re weaving down Route 1.
Yup. No sympathy for drunk drivers. Fuck 'em.
I’m normally opposed to undercover police surveillance of people they don’t have warrants for and unimpressed by the “You’ve got nothing to hide, so why are you opposing this?” arguements, but this doesn’t bother me. I don’t think you have any reasonable expectation of privacy at a drive-through window. I mean, the deputy’s not going to see anything that the actual McWorker wouldn’t see anyway, so I really have no issue with it.
And you wonder why no one likes the police much?
What next, they hang out in nightclub/strip club parking lots acting as valet/booth attendants?
:rolleyes:
I think there needs to be a line drawn somewhere… Having spotters hide within a private business, and undercover, is just a little far fetched.\
I thought that cops had to remain “visible” whenever they used their radar guns to check for people speeding? What would make this any different?
I’m guessing that rule or law has since changed though…
I’m more offended by the lame attempt at making a cool acronym.
I worked at a Mcdonalds outside of the city of Richmond, Va. I often worked the drivethrough and I would say I saw a person every day that had a beer in their hand. I would say once every other week I saw someone smoking weed as they drove through. Only once did I see someone doing both.
we were open till one, this was always late at night.
Several cops I know work plainclothes in bars and nightclubs all the time. This isn’t much different.
I don’t get it. How the hell can this be considered undercover when there’s a news story about it???
Seems like a bit of overkill to me.
All one has to do is sit outside of a Wendy’s (Or whatever) at 2am on a weekend night and pretty much take your pick of any driver in the pick up line.
It’s like shooting fish in a barrell.
My uncle (a Dallas cop) tells me the reason why he doesn’t sit outside of a bar at 2am (when the bars close) and start pick’n people off; is because: “That’s not good sportsmanship.” :rolleyes:
I’m not sure if he’s serious or pull’n my leg.
But what is there purpose at the time, and their position? Just curious…
I agree. It’s pretty shallow.
Part of the street crime unit - that’s not the official title of their unit, I forget the actual acronym they have. Their role is mainly to curb violent crime in the downtown area as well as monitor the bars themselves for violations such as serving underage patrons. This particular city was getting a bad image because of assaults on tourists and a lot of media coverage of violent crime so this unit was created.
That’s about what I figured, thanks.
I’m not familiar with a legal requirement for a warrant for surveillance, as opposed to searches. Could you explain when a warrant is needed for surveillance?
I vote for awesome. The only way it could be cooler is if they’d called it Operation I Can Has Cheezburger?
When a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
So do you also cease all use of the highways and streets where police do radar speed checks and set up drunk driver test stops?