Aunty-The problem is you will never know if you benefited from the checkpoint or not because the drunk driver that would have ran the red light and killed someone you love would have been arrested 20 minutes before. There's no way to judge the real success of such a program.

If the bitch that ran the red light at 23rd ave/E Yesler had been picked up at a checkpoint, Officer Joselito Barber would still be alive.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/18435-police-officer-joselito-alvarez-barber

If the ahole that rear ended me on I-5 doing 90mph with a BAC of .24 had been picked up earlier in the night at a checkpoint maybe my back still wouldnt be jacked up. Or, maybe if he was held longer than a few hours from the DUI he was arrested on the night before...That would have worked too!

Noone can argue that drunk driver's don't kill and hurt innocent people...I didnt mean to get on my soap box about that. The fact is that checkpoints can greatly increase the DUI's taken off the road and if one of those stops an innocent driver from getting hurt, I'm for it.

I cant buy into the arguement of "what next, you going to come into my house without a warrant?" DUI checkpoints have been in place across the country for many years and those states didn't use it as stepping stone for something more sinister and thinking that Washington would is not much more than a conspiracy theory.

Let the cop flaming begin...or should I say continue.