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Except the greater good would be better served without the checkpoints.
I know I didn't post a link, but I'm not making it up. DUI checkpoints are far less effective than patrol cops at taking drunk drivers off the road, and every cop manning a check point is a cop who isn't out patrolling.
They might sound like common sense, but the simple fact is that they don't work nearly as well as one might hope.
They'd work better without those facebook posts warning people not to go by a certain intersection, as there is a checkpoint there. It's too easy for the drunks to avoid the checkpoints.
It seems to me it would be easier in general to enforce traffic laws if the patrol were not quite so visible. Whenever a CHP is seen, and you can spot them a mile off, all of a sudden the speed limit becomes the maximum speed and the cell phones go back in pockets. Then, when it's no longer in sight, it's business as usual.