It's an inconvenience that I have been subject to perhaps once in 50 years of driving.
if you are like me and do not drink and drive and are sensible enough to keep your conveyance in decent order...well once or twice in a lifetime...whats the problem.
What i interpret this new proposed law as being isn't what you haven't experienced, but potentially could mean (as a ridiculous but not unplausable example) that if a police officer in a town were his brother is a laid off Chrysler employee, could opt to pull over every Hyundai he sees and force each driver to give a sample, even multiple times a day until people local to the area are force to change cars in order to be able to live a life with out any recourse because the officer doesn't need any reason. If instead of being over once in 50 years you were now being pulled over 6 times a day because a local officer has taken a dislike to you, and you had little recourse to it would you consider it reasonable.
Is there any reason to believe that the present system of ride checks aren't as effective as letting an officer demand samples from anyone he has a urged to whether or not he has a reason to suspect anything.
What is the alternative...just do nothing? Give drunk drivers carte blanche...what do you do? It's not perfect...nothing is. It's something...a try.
Perhaps a better alternative police looking for drunk drivers could be pulling over people who are swerving all over the road and set up roadside stops where people who may be are inebriated are likely to be driving, say 50 feet from the local bar like they can all ready do. They hardly need the power to not be answerable for pulling over the same person or group of people under the guise of a random check without reason.
While I suspect fewer then then 1% of police officers would ever do such a thing, that leaves a lots of opportunity for unchecked abuses of power.
In the town nearest to where I grew up, there was a police officer who would find any reason to stop any motorcyclist. He once stopped me and tried to ticket me for needing a new exhaust on my Suzuki on/off road bike. I was literally going home from getting a brand new stock exhaust system installed and had the receipt to prove it. There was nothing wrong with the exhaust He just needed an excuse to be a bother and and that's what he came up with. I promptly complained to the police chief and he was made to apologize, for that and the 6 other unfounded stops in the proceeding 3 and a half weeks none of which resulted in tickets but all of which took an hour out of my life. With a law that relieved him of having to come up with an excuse he would have had no time to deal with any crimes because he would have been pulling over motorcycles all day instead.
I have little problem with stopping, answering "Have you been drinking today" and being sent on my way when they can smell nothing and get the answer they are seeking, as already happens to me at least 3 times a year, along with any others driving down the road, but I have huge problems with being the only person being pulled over repeatedly and made to blow onto a machine six times a day.
