Nebraska Roadblocks

Town/City/Municipality:
Bellevue
Description of roadblock location:
Highway 370 between Westridge and Betz Road
Time of day:
Mid-day
Purported purpose of roadblock:
Seatbelts
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:
05/2002
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
One time they gave out a little something to people who were using seatbelts.. I live on this highway, and it always backs up traffic so far that I can't get out of my driveway..


Town/City/Municipality:
Fremont
Description of roadblock location:
Military Road West of Fremont by Mormom Momument
Time of day:
Mid-day
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, insurance, residency
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:
04/2008
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
If you display fear they will pull your car off the road and question you further while they run a check on you for outstanding warrants. I have asserted my rights to not be detained without probable cause and have been allowed to continue on without producing my papers.


Town/City/Municipality:
LaVista (Omaha area)
Description of roadblock location:
Harrison St., approximately 118th, Harry Andersen.
Time of day:
Late Night
Purported purpose of roadblock:
alcohol
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:
05/2009
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
IMPOSSIBLE to see before you get caught in the trap!


Town/City/Municipality:
Seward
Description of roadblock location:
I-80 approximately 20 miles east of Grand Island
Time of day:
Mid-day
Purported purpose of roadblock:
drugs, racial_profiling, dogs
Regularity of roadblock:
Infrequently set up but location remains constant
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped only a few vehicles (less than 25%)
Registry date:
08/2009
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
Large signs shortly before the checkpoint announcing "Drug Checkpoint Ahead" and "Drug Dog in Use Ahead." The actual checkpoint is not on 1-80 itself, but at the exit right after the signs. The officers probably expect that anyone carrying drugs will quickly try to exit to avoid a checkpoint, so the checkpoint is located at the exit, out of sight of the highway. Of course I wasn't carrying any drugs, so I wasn't worried about proceeding on I-80, but when no checkpoint appeared, I realized it had to be at the only exit shortly after the signs. I wonder what the locals out in the remote Nebraska countryside think about getting stopped by the state troopers all day and searched for drugs when they take the only ramp from the highway to town.


Town/City/Municipality:
Seward
Description of roadblock location:
Interstate 80 westbound
Time of day:
Anytime
Purported purpose of roadblock:
registration, insurance, drugs, destination, racial profiling, activities, travel, dogs
Regularity of roadblock:
Set up at this location on a regular or frequent basis
Percentage of cars stopped or checked:
Stopped only a few vehicles (less than 25%)
Registry date:
01/2009
Additional information about this roadblock or notes on roadblock encounter:
Stopped all Vehicles that used the Exit Ramp. Claiming failure to use turn signal while exiting the ramp. Officers were in hidden locations waiting for Exiting vehicles. Detained even after Citation was issued, Video and Mic recordings of Profiling, based on looks and family last name history.