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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
This will help a lot of borderline people who may have been unjustly charged by the new laws. It may also help some drunks drive without prosecution. He's also going to help a bunch of stone cold sober people avoid hour long line ups and not miss whatever engagement it is that they're trying to attend.
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Exactly. It's not even about people that will face suspensions under the new laws, as I somewhat agree (I've done a test with an officer before to determine what 0.05 feels like and I can tell you I would not drive at 0.05).
What I have no patience for whatsoever is being detained for 30 minutes waiting in a bus after one drink and blowing 0.02 on the roadside device. Well, maybe you'll be 0.05 after waiting a half hour. Ya ok.
What about the Charter? Unreasonable detainment there IMO.
I think the book should be thrown at anyone over 0.05 (once the appropriate laws have been passed, which they haven't IMO). I think if you're in an accident that involved alcohol, you should never drive again. Ever.
But stopping and detaining individuals on no reasonable grounds (especially when the offensive rate is <0.1%) is absurd and a violation of my liberty. So I have little sympathy for checkstops. Perhaps the officers should be in their vehicles driving around, stopping individuals with erratic driving patterns at the night. You'd probably have a much higher conviction/charge rate.
You'd have a higher conviction rate stopping shoppers at Walmart and searching their bags for stolen goods... that's the honest truth.