{"id":24543,"date":"2010-12-30T02:16:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/5-december-29-2010-dui-checkpoints-a-waste-of-our-money-and-our-rights\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T02:16:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:16:43","slug":"5-december-29-2010-dui-checkpoints-a-waste-of-our-money-and-our-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/5-december-29-2010-dui-checkpoints-a-waste-of-our-money-and-our-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI Checkpoints \u2013 A waste of our money and our rights."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"roadblock-300x225\"New Year’s Eve is in two days.\u00a0 The radio and papers are full of stories of DUI checkpoints.\u00a0 If that doesn’t make you mad, you don’t understand DUI checkpoints.<\/p>\n

DUI checkpoints do not make us safer. Nationally, out of 1000 drivers stopped, only three are arrested for DUI.\u00a0 Police officers on regular patrols watching for erratic drivers are ten times more effective than DUI checkpoints.\u00a0 If police are at checkpoints they are not on regular patrols and they are not catching drunk drivers.<\/p>\n

So a thousand drivers are stopped.\u00a0 Every one one of those drivers who has even one drink is hauled out of the car and made to perform roadside gymnastics to prove they are OK to drive.\u00a0 Responsible drinkers are made to walk the line and balance on one foot in front of their neighbors.\u00a0 That’s a pretty big intrusion into your liberty and mine.<\/p>\n

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New Year’s Eve is in two days.\u00a0 The radio and papers are full of stories of DUI checkpoints.\u00a0 If that doesn’t make you mad, you don’t understand DUI checkpoints. DUI checkpoints do not make us safer. 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