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Originally Posted by jar_e
I can guarantee you that the 2,458 impaired charges CPS laid between Jan and Oct 2011 are not all from traffic stops or from regular district cops. You're also basing your stats on the enhanced checkstop, which is during the day, and not all the checkstops that were completed in December.
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Well, can we agree that the enhanced are a complete waste of resources then?
Why doesn't the CPS publish stats of the total checkstops? These can't be found anywhere. If they are so successful, I'd expect them to be tooting their horn on it. But silence. Why? Where's the data on the effectiveness?
All I can find is RCMP data on how effective they are at finding other stuff going on. Which isn't exactly the justification in the legislation for allowing checkstops. We should be honest with ourselves. Are these DUI stops, or are these just random police searches? If they are the later, are we comfortable as a society with that?
Disguising this as a awesome impaired driving deterent isn't honest IMO. Especially when Alberta continues to have terrible fatality stats despite what is claimed to be one of the most stringent checkstop programs.