Kentucky Roadblocks

Town/City/Municipality:
Cadiz
Description of roadblock location:
US-68E&W anywhere from Downtown Cadiz Exit to LBL
Time of day:
Late Night
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, alchohol, insurance, drugs, seatbelts, vehicle safety, vehicle equipment, destination, racial profiling, activities travel
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
05/2007
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
This Road block occurs usually just past Arrowhead Golf Course as you start to go down the hill you will see them. Checking both East and West bound traffic and stopping all vehicles. I have been stopped and checked there twice in the past month. They get right up in your face to try to smell your breath.


Town/City/Municipality:
Campton
Description of roadblock location:
715, entrance into park at Red River Gorge
Time of day:
Any time
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Registration, Alcohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts, Vehicle Equipment, Destination, Warrants, Racial Profiling, Travel Activities, Dogs
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
06/2002
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
The police at this roadblock carry out an operation they call "playing the game." They immediately accuse you of having drugs on you, and inform you that if you don't fork them over everyone in the car is going to jail (an obvious bluff). They are notorious for searching teenagers and young adults, and if you have long hair, dreadlocks, or are wearing a bandana, you can count on being searched. They wasted a good forty-five minutes of our time trashing our car and letting dogs trample all over it. They seemed to be making a lot of arrests. Since my experience, it has come to my attention that there are frequently roadblocks in this exact area.


Town/City/Municipality:
Dry Ridge
Description of roadblock location:
I 75 at exit 159, Hwy 22 west
Time of day:
Any time
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Registration, Insurance, Seatbelts, Travel Activities
Regularity of roadblock:
Infrequently set up but location remains constant
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped/checked 25% to 75% of vehicles
Registry date:
07/2001
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
No comment available.


Town/City/Municipality:
Lexington
Description of roadblock location:
Bryan Station road near the 5000 block
Time of day:
Any time
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Registration, Alcohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
10/2002
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
we live less than a mile from the roadblock i just posted. we live in a mobile home park that is i guess strike one against us. this roadblock is setup at this location strictly for the people in the mobile home park because as we all know people who live in a mobile home must be scumbags and on drugs, strike two against us. the law sets up these roadblocks and are knowingly discriminating against people who don't have the means to do anything about their harrassment, strike three against us and were out and completely at the mercy of the law. I am an electrician and my wife is going to college to become a psychologist, we both work very hard and feel this very wrong. We cannot leave our community without being stopped and questioned, and it is not just on a Friday or Saturday night! They set up shop during the week, Sunday afternoons etc. We would like to know who we can contact about this! They don'nt have roadblocks set up outside the country club, where all the rich people go, and get drunk, in fact, they have a policeman directing traffic for them, when they leave! They KNOW that no lawyers, or anyone with high status, lives in a mobile home park, so thats why they target us! Because we are "trash" and I'm sick of it!!


Town/City/Municipality:
Marion
Description of roadblock location:
Hwy 60 in front of Marion Mining Bolt
Time of day:
PM Rush Hour
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Seatbelts
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
07/2002
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
I don't drink nor do I partake in any illegal drugs. I was stopped at a road block at the above stated location on Friday evening of the 2002 Memorial Day Weekend I had to wait more than a 10 minutes to get to speak to an officer who sited me for not having my 2 year old in a seat belt. I would have belted him while I waited but I thought I had belted him in. My 7 year old son and I were buckled. I would never intentionally not buckle my little one. But this time my 2 yr old decided to climb into his seat by himself so I turned to do something and just forgot to buckle him. I feel that the road blocks for checking license, belts, insurance, etc. is an invasion of privacy. I could understand if law enforcement was trying to apprehend a known convict loose in our community but this is not right. In my small community I have lived here for about 1 year and have been through at least 5 road blocks. I have been told that our small community is 2nd in the state for dui's ..... no wonder they set up just across the river from IL where everyone crosses on a ferry and checks everyone.


Town/City/Municipality:
Mount Vernon
Description of roadblock location:
FlatGap Rd.
Time of day:
Anytime
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, alchohol, insurance, drugs, seatbelts, vehicle safety, vehicle equipment, destination, warrants, criminal convictions, activities travel
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
05/2008
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
No comments available.


Town/City/Municipality:
Ravenna
Description of roadblock location:
County road Chestnut Stand, Marble Yard
Time of day:
Late Night
Purported purpose of roadblock:
unknown, registration, alchohol, insurance, drugs, seatbelts, child safety seats, marital status, activities travel, dogs
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
04/2007
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
They are only out to make a dollar.


Town/City/Municipality:
Russellville
Description of roadblock location:
Rt 79, Just south of Russellville
Time of day:
Late Night
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, alchohol, insurance, vehicle safety
Regularity of roadblock:
Infrequently set up but location remains constant
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
05/2008
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
This roadblock was set up Saturday night about 9pm on Memorial Day weekend 2008, on Rt 79 just south of Russellville KY. There were 6 police vehicles (3 setting on each side of the road) with 6 officers in the center lane stopping cars. As far as I could tell they were stopping every vehicle to ask for license, registration, proof of insurance and check for intoxication. I was told by the officer that it was an "advertised roadblock" and that they were doing a "safety check". I suspect that this roadblock is set up mainly during holiday weekends.


Town/City/Municipality:
Suwanee, Eddyville
Description of roadblock location:
Intersection of State Hwy 62 and highway 810
Time of day:
Late Night
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Registration, Alchohol, Insurance, Drugs, Seatbelts, Child safety seats, Warrants, Activities travel
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped/checked 25% to 75% of vehicles
Registry date:
06/2002
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
This is a "dry liquor" county (no stores in the county are allowed to sell alcohol) and the ONLY restaurant (Sante Fe Cattle Company) that serves alcohol in this county that I'm aware of sits about 2-3 miles right in between the roadblock locations right off of I-24 exit 40 near the Lake Barkley area. I have been told that roadblocks have been set up between 2-3 miles of both sides of Interstate 24 off of exit 40 and right outside of Eddyville with the Santa Fe restaurant smack dab in the middle of these draconian Kentucky State Police roadblocks. However, the roadblocks are made just far enough for plausible deniability that they are tareting patrons of the restaurant. I got pulled over on a Friday night at approximately 11:00-11:30. If you have long hair or don't look what they consider "civil" or "upper-crust" in their snap judgements, they will ask you to pull over and make you perform a rediculous and ineffective sobriety test as a diversion while the occupants in your vehicle are spot interrogated about their recent drinking, eating and drug consumption. I was visting from out of state and I have NEVER been subjected to such a process that made me to feel like I'm guilty until proven innocent. All my vehicle paperwork was perfectly in line and I had indeed consumed one quite large and relatively powerful alcoholic beverage prior to meeting the roadblock and they had me pull over (after noticing my long hair) and put me to the sobriety test which I passed with flying colors. That in itself is evidence of the roadblock's ineffectiveness, inefficiency and outrageous invasive motive. It is obvious they are specifically targeting ANY patrons leaving the Santa Fe Cattle Company restaurant since it IS the only establishment in the area that serves alcholic beverages. The KY state police WILL pull anyone over for further questioning or sobriety test who has claimed to have eaten at the Santa Fe. The pisser about this roadblock is that it purposely restricts access to the high dollar residential lakefront properties where most of the people in the immediate area go to eat at the Santa Fe regularly on weekend nights when the roadblocks are set up. This is not random and it is getting quite out of hand. I will make some calls and see if my local acssociates can mark the road with a large neon orange sign roadblock warning a mile previous to other historic roadblock sites so one may turn around without detection and wait it out at the local convenience stores next to the Santa Fe.


Town/City/Municipality:
West Liberty/Paintsville
Description of roadblock location:
Rt. 172 and Rt 437
Time of day:
Anytime
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, drugs, seatbelts, warrants
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped and checked all cars or most vehicles
(more than 75%)
Registry date:
07/2007
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
Once these guys set up a block no one can pass without showing DL.