This is what those DUI checkpoints are all about

[JayhawkSD]

Three people died here. Officers manning those checkpoints are trying to prevent that kind of death. Last weekend in San Diego County they stopped 100 drunk drivers. How many of those would have caused something like this? Well, even if it was only one, I think that's worth the inconvenience of having to stop and answer a few questions. Maybe not. Maybe your time is so valuable that a few deaths don't matter.

If a gunman is in your elementary school shooting at your kids, are you going to call for a 21-year-old kid with a camera phone? I think not. I suspect you are going to hope like hell that a whole bunch of cops show up.

[yesphan]

1. A noble thought perhaps,

but the cops are looking for a lot more than drunk drivers.

[Sherman A1]

5. Precisely

I must concur with your eloquent statement.

[msongs]

2. depends on whether they are actually looking for dui's or fishing for something more nt

[byeya]

3. The police also have drivers license check points. It was found in VA that over 10%

of drivers don't have a valid O.L.

[kentuck]

4. Are you suggesting we have DUI checkpoints all the time?

Were these drivers drunk? Did they go thru a DUI checkpoint? This is sort of like the war on terror - it will not stop every accident.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. I don't accept living in a police state

because it's "safer".

[reflection]

7. That is certainly not what it's "all" about.

And there's a reason people are starting to resist. It's not because they love drunk drivers, it's because they feel something greater is at stake. Regardless, if the law says the kid doesn't have to roll his window down all the way, then the police should respect the law until it's changed. I follow all kinds of laws I don't agree with.

[TheKentuckian]

8. I vehemently oppose all stops without an individual and specific cause.

I don't care if I'm in a hurry or just cruising, what I care about are our rights not police state fishing expeditions to feed your illusion of safety.

Stop trying to harass everyone.