The Police in my town are Really stupid

Originally Posted by wolf

Your cops aren't stupid, just hoping that the people they are trying to catch are. Also, you can never go wrong underestimating the intelligence of the voting public.

Visible enforcement is not an unusual thing with an election in the near future.

Expect speed traps and a DUI checkpoint or two as well.

Oh, there's plenty of dumb criminals out there, but if I had a car full of narcotics, my first instinct would be to check out the side roads. That's just self preservation. We have tons of speed traps out here all the time. The cops like to make money on the tourists going to Mesa Verde. They know that the tourist will probably just pay the ticket rather than drive back 400 miles plus to fight it in the local traffic court. New Mexico, about 20 miles to the south, has DUI checkpoints everywhere, all the time, especially on weekends. The Hispanic community down there seems very fond of getting blitzed and then stepping into their low riders to have enormous collisions that kill 4 or 5 people in just one accident.

I suspect the narcotics check point was an election thing about looking good, as others have mentioned. It was set up on the main highway through the region, and I'm sure lots of people saw it or were stopped by it.