The Honolulu Police Administration said it would review all the arrests of the leadership, which was weak after the US Civil Liberties Union in Hawaii filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming that the officers were arresting the sober drivers in excessive focus on a drunk detention.
In recent years, Honolulu officers have arrested “degrees” of drivers who do not show any external signs of low value, and a good performance in field sobriety tests that often show their breath tests, the case does not appear.
The American Civil Liberties Union said: The administration is driven by “singular focus” on obtaining arrests of its leadership under influence, even if it does not lead to condemnation.
ACLU said that the supervisors give the officers incentives, including informing nightfalls that they can return to the house and are still receiving their salaries in exchange for a full seizure if they arrested the only identity document, which leads to the officers undertaking the investigation shortcuts or conducting arrests without a possible reason.
The organization said that the police are trying to show that the officers are protecting the public, using the arrest numbers to secure federal financing and meet the shares.
“Each of our customers has detonated 0,000. None of them was drunk. However, they suffered permanent damage to their records, reputation, dependence on shock, and illegal detention,” said Jeremy Austin, a lawyer with a company working on the lawsuit with Aclu Hawaii. “What we are asking today is simple: stop arresting innocents. Stop manipulating the regime.”
In response, the ministry said in a statement that it “takes these allegations seriously” and that the officials “started a comprehensive review of all leadership arrests dating back to 2021”.
The US Civil Liberties Union said it has become aware of this issue thanks The investigation conducted by the Hawaiian news correspondent, Lynn Coano.
The collective lawsuit lawsuit on behalf of three of the arrested prosecutors and represent hundreds of other drivers. The three were included in the HNN series.
HNN says that all three drivers have achieved the results of the breathing test 0.00 either before or after being transferred to the police station.
At a press conference on Thursday morning, the legal director of the Civil Liberties Union in Hawaii and Foci Kim said that the appointed prosecutors “represent a category of hundreds of drivers who have been arrested by HPD in recent years without legal procedures or without a possible reason.”
Kim said they represent drivers in the future.
The lawsuit requires the judge to announce that the practices of the Honolulu Police Administration are unconstitutional and illegal. He does not ask for cash damage.
In addition to the ongoing review, the three prosecutors will be investigated internally, the police said: “We are dedicated to supporting general confidence and we will take the appropriate action if any misconduct is found.”
From 2022 to 2024, Hunulo Police arrested 127 people with a level of alcohol content in the blood of 0.000 after the breathing or blood test for driving under effect, according to the case. The lawsuit said only 15 people got a traffic ticket, and only three people were accused of driving under the influence of drugs.
The lawsuit said that the “Honolulu Police” was stopping the drivers either without any problematic driving at the sober checkpoint or minor traffic violations.
Tanner Banjan was a senior high school when one of the officers pulled him last year after his fish truck touched on a fermented road. “When I was withdrawn and accused of drinking and driving … I was somewhat amazed because I do not drink, I do not deal with drugs, nothing.”
It was the first time that he was arrested or withdrawn.
Aclu Hawaii is interested in the presence of shares that officers try to meet. When looking at detention statistics, the American Civil Liberties Union found a set of arrests at the end of the month. On August 31, 2024, there were three arrests in which the breathing test showed 0.,000 in the same site about 20 minutes from each other.
