No that wasn’t the focus or motivation of my question, but it could be applied.
I was waiting for someone to ask that. lol...
You can certainly agree with the logic behind a sobriety checkpoint, and understand why LEO’s would believe they’re important and just.
OTOH, checkpoints of any kind seem in some ways, the traffic equivalent of “hate speech” laws.
Drunk driving is already illegal. The reason is, it interferes with driving reaction times, and contributes to accidents. So there already is a structure in place, to punish those who drive drunk - drivers who are seen or especially cause an accident, are punished.
Similarly, so called “hate crimes”:
Assaults, are illegal. Hate crime laws, are applied to assaults, but the assault is already illegal.
I support, respect and genuinely admire law enforcement - I will even admit to having been treated with what in retrospect, was a certain degree of leniency by a couple officers; but checkpoints do smack to a certain extent, of the stereotypical “your papers please...”.
Especially since, it’s entirely possible for a driver to arrive at a checkpoint set up for one purpose, to end up in trouble for something else entirely.
That seems to have taken us as a society, at least one step down that slippery slope. Needing to present ... our papers.
We seem to be getting closer to that sort of thing, slowly and by degree.
Unfortunately, each additional step, seems to have a whole new group of enthusiastic advocates...
(just my .02)