So – on Superbowl Sunday 41 cops from 8 separate law enforcement agencies stop and harass 2,699 innocent motorists over a period of what I can only assume to be many hours, and they catch… 5 whole drunk drivers?
That’s an accuracy rate of 0.00185% of total stops versus stops of people who are actual threats to the public safety.
I’ve written before about how insanely stupid these checkpoints are, both from a cost/benefit standpoint as well as a Constitutional/philosophical one. But it’s worth pointing out again that no matter how many times union bosses claim we just can’t cut a single dime more of government spending without putting public safety at risk, it just ain’t true.
Santa Crawl 2010 they had a DUI checkpoint way out in South Reno near the Double Diamond area. It makes total sense, when you think about it. What good would it do to put it near downtown on the night of a pub crawl? Yup, no drunks there…
Sean, it’s funny you mention that – that was the exact checkpoint I wrote about last time, and linked above. Not only was it far away from the crawl, it ended at 11:00 before the drunkenness really got underway!