A traffic stop strip search has shocked the people of Hamilton County and highlights a longstanding extra-legal but judicially approved pattern of abuse by a leading politician. By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio Sheriff Jim Hammond is using the state’s transportation and shipping law to regulate private people acting privately on the public right of way — people who are not involved in shipping or in any commercial activity subject to police power. The stop by deputies Daniel Wilkey and Bobby Brewer of a man and woman in an automobile was in keeping with departmental policy and judicially approved custom … Continue reading Hammond’s abuse of shipping law strips travelers of rights