[Red Potato Standing By]

Originally Posted by geos

I got the bus treatment for 45 minutes because I read 0.02 on the roadside after saying I had one drink. Copper says, we'll have to check that on the big machine. Fine. Oh ya, there is a 45 minute lineup.

Great.

Cops aren't nabbing drunk drivers though. I posted a link to a Herald article earlier in this thread. Out of 5,000+ people stopped in 2011, 5 were charged with impaired driving (who knows how many convicted? 2 or 3 probably?).

That's absurd. I'd have some sympathy for the enforcement method if it actually did, as you say, catch impaired drivers. But it doesn't. Instead, it violates my rights by subjecting me to an unreasonable search and detainment. Like I said before, if you want to bust criminal impaired drivers, get them in their cars patrolling and they'll find a few every night. We've all seen the weavers and light runners late on a Friday or Saturday night.

5 drivers out of 5,000. Is that reasonable grounds to stop, detain and require a breath sample of someone?

Hardly IMO. I'm a bit of libertarian so I'm skeptical of such things to begin with, but I don't believe we should so easily give up our rights for security, unless it can be proven there is a real benefit to our security. Which I don't think exists with this enforcement method.

Now knave never been thru a checkstop so I have a question. Do they search your vehicle and detain you?