If this goes through there will be a negative ripple effect to the food/beverage industry. Instead of stopping by your favorite watering hole for a beer or having a glass of wine at a nice restaurant, you will go straight home or have have some bottled water with dinner. Less people going out for drinks(with or without dinner), less people ordering drinks = less $ for restaurant industry.
Yeah! And don't forget all of the tow companies that will not be impounding all of those drunk's cars. We have to look out for the tow industry. Morticians and funeral homes will lose out also. Oh, don't forget the news crews that won't be able to report on horrific traffic collisions where some poor girl is hit head on by a drunk guy going the wrong way on Hwy 18 at 4:40 in the morning. That guy was probably just drinking a glass of wine at a "nice restaurant". That guy killed someone and only had a cut on his finger.... but at least he was supporting his late night "nice restaurant" industry.
So many of you people talk about how these road blocks would be a violation of your constitutional rights, but you’ll be the first one to want some police officer to violate some homeless person's rights when they are in your neighborhood. You people only want action when something has directly affected you personally. Think of your son. Think of your daughter. Think of your wife, your sister, father or mother. What if they were hit by some idiot and killed. Seriously, just stop and think about it for just a second. Their dead, lifeless body mangled in a car. Did it have to happen? Could it have been stopped?
I'm married with a 21 month old son. I worry about my family every minute they are not in my presence. If we can't trust people to not drive drunk, then I'll have to trust the cops that serve my area of operation to effectively eliminate as many of the threats as possible.
It's not the cops who would be inconveniencing us at a road block. It’s the people who can’t take responsibility for their own actions inconveniencing us by putting us in harms way.
I’m done.