re: Walker PD to conduct DWI checkpoints.

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BS, there is 1 reason dept's do checkpoints. They get money. Far and away the most tickets written at dwi checkpoints are for expired inspection stickers and lapsed insurance, they almost never nab any drunk drivers.
The cops that run them are paid extra duty wages to be there and many times the Depts will get federal money also.

It's a money grab, nothing more.

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Yeah, but you could just have regular grant funded traffic task forces to get ticket revenue. If a DWI task force is writing tons of minor traffic tickets, it's going to slow up traffic pretty bad. Maybe if you are in a rural area, they do this. I've only seen them in JP on highways and major streets and the backups are already real bad. Never been asked for DL, registration, or insurance and once I even had an expired brake tag and the deputy didn't even look. Every time I've been through one, they just ask 'have you been drinking'...it's obvious when you haven't been...then just got waived through.