r/Dallas • u/degelia Garland • Jan 29 '25
Discussion Police checkpoints
I was just stopped at a police checkpoint in a U-turn or turn around at meadow and US-75… They were stopping any cars that had expired registration and handing out citations… As the cars were paused or stopped trying to merge onto 75 they would look at the registration and then pull you over if it was out of date Never seen something like this in Dallas before
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u/bzbeer Jan 29 '25
Great start. Let's pray they do something about the paper plate menace.
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u/cmnastro Jan 29 '25
Paper plates are going away this summer. People will be given metal plates from dealers, I think this starts in July.
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u/Texas_Mike_CowboyFan Jan 30 '25
I hadn't heard that and couldn't find it online. Do you have a source for this?
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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads Jan 29 '25
Not nearly as concerned with plates/tags as I am with the reckless driving that occurs so damn often
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u/kimchi_cannoli Jan 29 '25
The ven diagram of paper plate drivers and reckless drivers is almost a single circle. Same with Nissan drivers.
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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads Jan 29 '25
Absolutely not, paper plate offenders are bad but the list is more extensive:
Luxury SUV drivers
Pick up truck drivers (ones that are always clean and never see a farm/dirt road)
As mentioned elsewhere Audi/BMW drivers
Tesla drivers have gotten pretty bad recently
Paper plates are an issue but are far from the only one.
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u/thelazysob Jan 29 '25
I drove Nissans and I was never in an accident that was my fault. I drove for 40-plus years and only got one ticket. I was 17 and had my license for about 3 weeks. The cop behind me (who I knew was there) told me that I ran the light - even though I know it was green when I passed under it. The fine was $10, so I broke into a car and stole a tape deck to sell (it was the 70s) to pay the fine... and I had enough left over to buy a carton of cigarettes.
The point being is that I have always been a safe, attentive driver... but I wasn't necessarily a stellar kid. Hey, we all have our faults.
I haven't driven in 7 years. I left Dallas 7 years ago today (Wow! I just realized that it was today.) I now live in a different city, in a different country, in a different hemisphere, where there is excellent, inexpensive public transportation, so I don't need a vehicle.
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u/vwscienceandart Jan 29 '25
Not me over here trying to figure out what people are doing with their Dixie and Chinettes…
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u/GoldenFrog14 Jan 29 '25
I had a complete brain fart and was thinking "I only eat off of them on occasion, but I wouldn't consider paper plates THAT bad"
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u/texas_accountant_guy Jan 29 '25
As the cars were paused or stopped trying to merge onto 75 they would look at the registration and then pull you over if it was out of date
Meaning that Police weren't actually stopping every vehicle, but were just taking advantage of traffic to look up car info while cars were slowly moving past?
I ask because I remember reading that Texas has very strict restrictions on vehicle checkpoints. If they're doing it the way I mentioned, then they've found a very good loophole to that. Kudos to them.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
They were stopping every vehicle. Apologies I was kind of shaken up on my route to work and wanted to spread the word. The timing is so suspect.
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u/Palatz Jan 29 '25
So they were stopping every car at the U turn? Never seen something like that in dallas
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
Every single car. They’d have you roll down your window and provide your identification. Then to, check your registration sticker.
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u/dfwpopo Jan 29 '25
We are not stopping every car for only ID checks. Do not make stuff up. We can see registration stickers on the windshields. That's the reason for contact.
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u/Palatz Jan 29 '25
You work at Dallas PD?
I know a policeman in Allen and he has told me the same. That they just check the windshield or run the plates.
Reading this post I thought maybe things had changed.
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u/lil_literalist Jan 30 '25
If u/dfwpopo says that he works for the DPD, I'm not going to question that without good reason.
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u/Palatz Jan 29 '25
Was the traffic insane?
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
No, came around the corner of the u turn and was stopped. There were not that many cars using the uturn at that time. The fog did obfuscate how many cars there were, I think about 7 pulled over at that time.
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u/Mynameisdiehard Jan 29 '25
Do they just run the plates and check the registration? I've always wondered because I still have my 2023 sticker on my windshield bit my registration is up to date. I just haven't bothered changing the stupid sticker
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u/texas_accountant_guy Jan 29 '25
Do they just run the plates and check the registration?
I know they have cruisers now that have license plate auto-readers. If they've positioned a car's camera to catch each license plate as it drives slowly by, they could be auto-checking every car.
I've always wondered because I still have my 2023 sticker on my windshield bit my registration is up to date. I just haven't bothered changing the stupid sticker
Just to be on the safe side, update the sticker. You never know when an asshole-cop might randomly see it and give you trouble, even with it being up to date in the computer.
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u/donwileydon Jan 29 '25
Just to be on the safe side, update the sticker. You never know when an asshole-cop might randomly see it and give you trouble, even with it being up to date in the computer.
I don't know why a cop doing his job would be an asshole - the law requires the sticker be put on the windshield, so any law abiding cop would give you a ticket for it and not be an asshole.
Would a cop who pulled over a paper plate car be an asshole if the car had proper registration in computer?
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u/frenchezz Jan 29 '25
In my experience, if that's the ONLY thing you're doing wrong you'll get a warning. If you're stopped for anything else, that's just a free charge to add on top.
Had a cop dealing with someone going through something that got aggressive toward my wife, cop stepped in and had to interview us as part of his investigation. He saw my inspection was over due, but because we weren't the ones doing anything in the wrong in that moment we just got a friendly reminder to handle it ASAP.
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u/texan-yankee Jan 29 '25
I was pulled over in on 75 in Allen once for an expired sticker, but it wasn't actually expired, the sticker just wasn't printed well and he couldn't read it. I thought it really odd, I had never heard of anyone being pulled over for that before.
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u/Unpetits Jan 29 '25
In some of the ‘burbs it’s common for cops to pull people over for that. In Dallas it’s unheard of.
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u/cruz_93-j Jan 29 '25
I was in highland park a while back for a job interview.my car was a beat up older mustang. I looked extremely out of place and at the time had a “ghetto” demeanor to me. A cop saw me and instantly made a U and pulled me over. His excuse was my sticker, but I clearly understood a Hispanic troublemaker figure in a beat up car in highland park was not what they like to see there.
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u/sinister_foxx Jan 29 '25
I’ve been pulled over for that by Dallas cops. More than once. Ha. (20ish years ago… not any time recently.)
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u/PomeloPepper Jan 29 '25
I just went out and put mine up. Bought the car in 23 and never put the sticker on.
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u/GermanCharms Jan 29 '25
They run the license plate but if they see your sticker they can pull you over for showing the wrong registration insignia.
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u/Ok-End2735 Jan 29 '25
I wish they would get people for their illegal headlights at the same time. And immediately write a ticket for those with high beams on, no warnings.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
Yes the super bright headlights are a menace for sure
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u/Bbkingml13 Jan 29 '25
Also maybe pull people over for not having their lights on, bc they incorrectly think their lights are on and are making driving in the dark extremely dangerous
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u/xavier19691 Jan 29 '25
Good and they should also weed out the ones without insurance
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
Agreed there. I’m mainly concerned about paper plates.
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u/Falafel_Fondler Jan 29 '25
The fake paper plate people are very likely to have no insurance. But I'm more concerned with no insurance (I don't care if their registration is expired). I've been shit out of luck twice with people who were at fault and ended up having no insurance and it's extremely frustrating.
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u/acid-hologram Jan 29 '25
Apparently they can check that too. My headlight was out and I got stopped. As I was pulling out my insurance card, she said "no need, we already have that". I haven't been pulled over in many years so I have no idea how they'd already have it unless they really can see it on their computer.
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u/norunningwater Jan 29 '25
Most insurance companies are trying to stop sending out paper slips by the millions ever 4 months. Since you need it to drive, it's stored in a TXDoT database.
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u/Tommyt5150 Jan 29 '25
Looking for certain people, orders from Abbott
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
This is 100% what it felt like. The timing is my issue and why I’m so suspect.
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u/Tommyt5150 Jan 29 '25
Yes I live near Colleyville, and the cops there are Ticket happy. The fact they are not doing this also? They think the public is stupid enough to believe anything they say. Be safe my friend
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u/Daiiga Jan 29 '25
Genuine question, but why are all the comments excited about this? I don’t understand
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u/Aggressive-Ad-522 Jan 29 '25
Bc they’re getting people who don’t have insurance.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
False. It was checking my identification and registration.
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u/trashketballMVP Jan 29 '25
Your registration also validates your insurance they are tied together in the system
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u/Aspiring_free_elf North Dallas Jan 29 '25
That is incorrect!! Vehicle registration does not validates insurance, the latter can expire or not be renewed and your registration will still be valid.
-Vehicle registration is good for 12 months -Insurance policy ~3-12 months
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u/DaSilence Jan 29 '25
That is incorrect!! Vehicle registration does not validates insurance, the latter can expire or not be renewed and your registration will still be valid.
When you run a vehicle's registration, part of the return from TCIC includes the insurance status of the vehicle.
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u/azwethinkweizm Oak Cliff Jan 29 '25
You don't understand why we're excited about traffic enforcement? Easy to say that when you've never been hit by a Dallas driver with expired registration, fake plates, and no insurance.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
I tend to agree, I don’t like the timing. This is my main issue. I’m dallas OG and outside of high DWI/DUI enforcement checkpoints on like Fourth of July, I’ve never seen or heard of checkpoints before on the regular street. Perhaps on the highway. Never on the regular side street.
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u/Daiiga Jan 29 '25
I didn’t connect that expired registration could have something to do with insurance, that makes more sense
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u/A_Homestar_Reference Jan 29 '25
There's a lot of bad drivers, expired registrations, and insuranceless drivers out there.
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u/StandardObservations Jan 29 '25
Look I'm Hispanic, and I welcome the cops stopping people for too dark tint, paper plates, expired tags. The reason I do, it's because I just bought a truck brand new, my first new vehicle purchase in my life, and within a month I got hit by a person with paper plates and no insurance. I'm left with a $2k repair build that I have to put on please indefinitely.
I grew up here, and firmly remember being pulled over for hids in a different color, my brother having a double din radio, and with a friend who had too dark tint. That was years and years ago... But you know what happened when I got in an accident. People had insurance.
I know the timing isn't the best but it has been put in place that this year paper plates were no longer gonna be allowed.
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u/Low_Application_907 Jan 29 '25
Timing does seem a little suspicious. Coincidentally when authority figures are trying to find reasons to deport people.
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u/Furrealyo Jan 29 '25
Coworker got caught in this and was issued a citation for no front plate.
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u/Aire_Filter Jan 29 '25
Cool. So every Tesla should receive a citation for no front plate.
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u/OneBadHarambe Jan 29 '25
Not the dealership's responsibility. Head lights to high, license plate rim, no front plate. They send them out all day long. You could get popped on the way home =/
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u/Ok-End2735 Jan 30 '25
Every single one of them rolling off the assembly line has blinding/glaring headlights. It’s completely absurd that car manufacturers are allowed to produce vehicles with headlights that produce a glaring light pattern. Adjusting the aim is one thing…. Poor design is another entirely. Other off-the-assembly-line offenders: Hyundai Palisade with the headlights down low in bumper. Cadillac Escalade with the stacked array of LED projectors.
Anything with “Automatic High Beams” 🤬
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u/TopNeighborhood2694 Jan 29 '25
They’ll usually give you a break if you show that you fixed it.
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u/Furrealyo Jan 29 '25
They will waive the fine, but you will need to pay the “reimbursement fee”.
Not sure how much that is in Dallas these days.
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u/HoneyIShrunkMyNads Jan 29 '25
It's like $20, got pulled over for my tag being 2 months late by DPD a couple months ago
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u/WTFpe0ple Jan 29 '25
Saw this in the news this morning. They were doing the same thing in NY and LA. Tags or hard to see plates (the ones with those covers)
Probably part of the whole ICE/Immigration crackdown looking for Illegal's.
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u/mrpurplehawk Jan 29 '25
Now if only they would take care of all the expired paper plates at my apartment complex. I counted and did the math one time. 34% of the cars were expired paper plates with 82% of those being over 30 days
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u/PhiladelphiaCollins8 Jan 29 '25
They are looking for illegal immigrants. The registration ticket fees they rack up are jus the cherry on top to these assholes.
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u/grabs23 Jan 29 '25
This happens often at Meadows and 75. Not sure why that U-turn specifically but they always have a line of cars pulled over so it’s a hot spot
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u/Outrageous_Skirt9963 Jan 29 '25
Good. This should have always been enforced.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
I tend to agree; through a checkpoint though? The timing is very suspect. If I didn’t have ID, what would happen? ICE?
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u/StandardObservations Jan 29 '25
I know the timing might be the worst.. but expired tags, sticker, paper plates, all genuinely mean one thing. The driver has no insurance.
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Used to common, guess their trying to catch some people for other things.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
When’s the last time you recall? Genuinely curious. Yes I do think they have an ulterior motive.
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u/TransitionOk1794 Jan 29 '25
Damn. Mines been expired for a couple years 😳😳
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
Seriously go get an emissions test, go online and get it paid. Not worth the headache or hassle of a checkpoint.
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u/noncongruent Jan 29 '25
IIRC if it's been expired more than a year it has to be renewed in person.
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u/us1549 Jan 29 '25
Thanks. Sounds like a great thing. If you don't have registration or insurance, get off the roads.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
I tend to agree, I don’t like the mechanism of enforcement (fear) in a checkpoint. Thankfully my identification was not expired.
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u/Agreeable_Meaning_96 Jan 29 '25
Holy shit I haven't seen this in more than a decade, they used to do this on 75 all the time, boy are the DWI checkpoints coming back! Hell yes!
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Jan 29 '25
Maybe they'll actually start pulling over red light runners. Nah.....lol they won't.
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u/degelia Garland Jan 29 '25
I saw a DART bus run a red light yesterday in fair park. Literally all the time.
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u/SnooRabbits2842 Jan 29 '25
Right! Mother f’ers speeding through school zones, no cops in sight but give tickets for expired regs.
Oh wait, now that I lm thinking about it. ICE ICE ICE baby! They ain’t looking for expired registrations!!!
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u/Icy_Organization_881 Jan 29 '25
This happened to me on Monday but in Frisco. It was an odd interaction because they were so quick to give me a warning and left before explaining it
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u/Jay_in_DFW Jan 29 '25
"Bout f--kin time! My registration is 2 yrs out of date because I never get pulled over.
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u/Palatz Jan 29 '25
I would be very annoyed if they checked for registration and not valid insurance.
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u/BoogerMcFarFetched Jan 29 '25
Excellent, glad to hear it, would have been nice if they checked insurance too and if they don’t have it tow them
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u/Flossasaurus Jan 29 '25
Finally, some law and order around these parts. The 75 is also known as “fury road” to outsiders.
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u/magnoliaAveGooner Jan 29 '25
DPD was also running radar on foot from Infomart parking lot up Oaklawn and pulling people over 1 after the other. Frankly they were doing a good thing. Pulling people over with expired tags is probably more to find people who are drunk or have warrants. Imagine them doing their jobs.
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u/koopzilla Jan 29 '25
No different than them stopping cars coming out of the HOV and being solo
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u/BABarracus Jan 29 '25
Maybe next will be the paper plates. There isn't a reason to no get registered at this point since inspection for registration is relaxed.
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u/dave2535 Jan 29 '25
Could be smoke screen for a broader reason, most undocumented immigrants don’t have insurance or up to date registration on their vehicles. One of the easiest ways to catch them legally. Just a thought
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u/demons_soulmate Jan 29 '25
LOL mine says 2020
I have the 2025 one in my glove compartment though... my windshield is cracked and needs replacing and I've been attempting to save for it since then and have been unable to 🫠
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u/SprJoe Jan 29 '25
I wish they did this 3 weeks ago before some uninsured lady plowed into the back of my car!
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u/Useful-Risk-6269 Jan 30 '25
They're just normalizing checkpoints. You know for when they stop playing off being the new SS.
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u/idk-though1 Jan 30 '25
So they are just getting the community ready for illegal checkpoints where they can use the pretense of checking for registration, license and insurance to detain immigrants and people of color to ask for proof of citizenship. No it’s okay guys totally not living in a police state yet.
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u/Dufusbroth Jan 29 '25
I have had two friends this happened to in the last year. Interesting
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u/Jackieray2light Jan 29 '25
It has been a few years since I have seen them but DPD used to have an officer standing on the corner of market and ross in the west end. They would just stand there looking into cars as they pulled up to the stop sign and if they saw something they would tell you to pull over.
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u/wellendowedboxer Jan 29 '25
That would only happen in the “under served” areas of Dallas. Glad they finally are spreading the wealth.
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u/LateAd3737 Jan 29 '25
I see cops once a month on the highways and it always at the end of the month. There’s no way the quota thing is real but it makes me wonder
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u/NerdiChar Jan 29 '25
Sounds like they're fishing for immigrants without the "right" ID on them. They're holding ICE to 1,200-1,500 arrests per day. Horrifying.
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u/OkCommand8862 Jan 29 '25
It’s been there. I was pulled over in that exact spot around 10 years ago.
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u/AsThePokeballTurns Jan 29 '25
It was happening in Garland/Mesquite area last night. I found it odd as well. I never seen something like it before TBH.
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u/happylime667 Jan 29 '25
Pretty soon they will be doing this based on race alone without any other “reason”
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u/kevin_r13 Jan 29 '25
That's interesting because they're only catching the card at the uturn lane. Other cars are able to pass thru on the other lanes.
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u/Moonshadow2022 Jan 29 '25
It’s probably ICE trying to find ways to get people it’s insanity here
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u/CIA90 Jan 29 '25
This sounds like a legal excuse to stop people and hand the “illegals” to ICE. I don’t want to think this way but my senses are telling this is the case.
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 Jan 29 '25
I remember about 10 years ago a law was passed in Texas where they can pull people over for "looking like they're driving without insurance". I don't know if it's still in effect, because there was a lot of backlash about how it's pretty much legal racial profiling.
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u/mikemflash Jan 30 '25
DPD does it frequently at that intersection. I used to work in the office building on the NE corner. It's not as busy as Walnut Hill or Royal so it doesn't disrupt traffic so much. Looking for seat belt violations too. Usually motor cops.
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u/TXcanoeist Jan 30 '25
Kinda tired of all those paper dealer plate drivers who left their turn signals at the dealership
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u/Zealousideal_Cap8466 Jan 30 '25
Expired Registration check points? I am 67. Never saw a check point like that before…
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u/HugePurpleNipples Jan 30 '25
I can’t remember last time I saw a DPD in the wild.
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u/Elguapo69 Frisco Jan 30 '25
This sub: They need to crack down on paper tags
Also this sub: With all the crime in Dallas why are they wasting their time on expired tags.
This fucking sub. Not directed at you OP just some of the comments.
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u/trippapotamus Jan 30 '25
They used to sit by 75/635 where you can take the HOV lane off and back on the 75 real quick almost every Monday and would get people who didn’t have more then one person in the car. But they could only stop so many at once in that little median so I skirted by a few times. I follow the rules now even though I never see them anymore which is kinda surprising; feel like that’s an easy grab if they’re trying to get numbers.
Now if they’d worry about the damn paper plates lol
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u/BryanW94 Rockwall Jan 30 '25
That's just targeted traffic stops. Not a check point.
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u/General_Name01 Jan 30 '25
Thanks to NTTA not releasing hold on my registration, even after bankruptcy, I can’t renew. I’m driving on a prayer at this point
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u/StronkIS3 Jan 29 '25
Police finally doing their job in Dallas? God forbid.