Last week I wrote about the plans of D.C. police to impose checkpoints on residents. That fell through.
However, the innovative folks who run things in Rolling Meadows here in Illinois have been getting away with it for a whole week:
The owners of a Rolling Meadows apartment complex filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging that their civil rights were violated when police blocked off most access to the property last week and set up a checkpoint at the only open entrance.
Two police officers have staffed the checkpoint for several hours a day, stopping residents to give them crime-prevention tips and handing out brochures in English and Spanish that describe services provided by a police Neighborhood Resource Center.
“The village of Rolling Meadows has in essence said they can barricade a community for the purpose of handing out fliers,” said Blake Horwitz, a lawyer with civil-rights expertise who is representing the owners of the 12 Oaks at Woodfield.
All in the name of crime prevention, of course.
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