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 | | When the police establish a roadblock on a route that they know or strongly suspect is being used by a dangerous criminal to escape, the probability is high not only of apprehending the criminal but also of preventing him from engaging in further criminal, or otherwise hazardous, activity incidental to his escape. |
 | | If the purpose of the roadblock program were to discover such violations, and if a program having such a purpose could be justified under the cases that allow searches and seizures without individualized suspicion of wrongdoing, then the seizure, in the course of such searches, of drugs that were in plain view would be lawful. |
 | | A roadblock administered the way Indianapolis handles its program is less intrusive than the search of one's person and belongings at an airport, another familiar kind of "roadblock" (and one that, like the Indianapolis program, is designed to find evidence of crime, such as carrying weapons aboard an aircraft). |
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