I don't know if the stats are out there but based on the accident stats that someone had in another thread who knows. Does anyone know of the % of DUI tickets given out at a checkstop versus in other ways i.e. stopped for speeding, stopped for erratic driving, accident? Especially the numbers for the really drunk and most dangerous group.
From my experience in terms of knowing people, reading stories and hearing from a cop friend tell stories it seems more likely that the really drunk guys are getting caught based on their own driving rather than checkstops.
It seems checkstops do more 24 hour suspensions than anything.
I guess any step that helps drunks get around police detection is good but it seems that this is likely to do very little to help the drunks get around police detection and to increase the risk to the public.
It seems much more likely that it is going to be used by the had two drinks at dinner and am worried about being .05 crowd than the got blitzed at the bar and am somewhere in the .01+ range group.
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