Bizarre police/state trooper activity. Are we becoming a police state?

Last night, I was driving home with my husband and son after picking him up from work. It was about 6:00, maybe 6:30. Plainly still rush hour. We come up to the main road leading to our neighborhood – a U.S. Highway and a 6-lane road.

All of a sudden, there are cones everywhere and a sign proclaiming “Roadway Safety Check. Prepare to stop.” Everyone was rerouted to a single lane. At one point, the road was split, and an officer (I don’t know if it was local sheriff or highway patrol – cars from both were around) shined a flashlight into the car and gestured either go right – into the post office parking lot and have your car searched, or go left – and go home. Fortunately, I got to go left. Many did not.

There is nothing on the FHP website, nothing on the local sheriff’s website. No news coverage. No explanation as to why all of a sudden this was occurring, what they were looking for, or what statute made this legal.

Does anyone have any information as to what this might mean? I find it very unsettling that the local law enforcement is now allowed to do random sweeps of every vehicle going down a road with no explanation or probable cause.