Can DUI Checkpoints Stop Every Car?
In this segment, Myles Berman addresses the political and economic pressure law enforcement agencies are under to “yield” the most arrests and revenue from a California DUI checkpoint. Eddy: Hey, how are you guys doing? Leykis: Doing okay, Eddy, Myles L. Berman: Hi Eddy. Eddy: Question, I drove through a checkpoint a few days ago in the city here, Montebello, and every car they were pulling over, you know, whether or not they were thinking the person was drunk driving. They were having everybody take a breathalyzer test. Is this something that we can refuse if they have no suspicions that we are drunk driving or are these new tactics that they’re using just to narrow down or find people who are drunk driving? Miles Burman: Well, first of all it sounds like you went through the checkpoint later on in the evening or the early morning. Is that accurate? Eddy: Yeah, later on in the evening. Miles Burman: Yeah, here’s what happened to you. You have to understand that checkpoints are actuall
