Yep. Just a thinly veiled excuse to search 2200 vehicles without any probable cause.
And score overtime at a non-annoying (for the cops, as opposed to for everyone else) hour. A DUI checkpoint at 2 am on a Friday night might not be so popular with the younger cops, many of whom are budding alcoholics and will likely want to be out driving drunk themselves. 🙂
Yeah, cynical bastige here.[/quote]
Right?!? Using this:
“So far this year, the department has tallied 38 driving under the influence arrests during the hours of 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. with 10 of those arrests occurring on Wednesday, he said.”