re: Walker PD to conduct DWI checkpoints.

DWI checkpoints are all about public awareness campaigns and nothing more. Terribly ineffective use of resources. Oftentimes the officers are working from grant money, so they don't care about effective/ineffective - they're making detail rates. I remember one checkpoint made contact with close to 1,000 people and made 3 arrests, dumb.

Far better to have a DWI Task force with 4 or 5 roving units, specifically targeting DWI stops in known hot spots. The Intoxilizer van could rove around and travel to the location of the stop. If your jail is nearby, the AO could do the transport. If not, bring out a transport van and load the arrestees up and bring several to jail at once.

In this age of cell phones, once the roadblock is set up, people call their friends coming from bars and tell them where to avoid it. It's just stupid. Oh, and most departments do not pursue turnarounds. So, if you're drunk out your mind and see what looks like a roadblock up ahead, you are way better off saying frick dat and hooking a u-turn.