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Are DUI Roadblocks Effective?

By Lawrence Taylor

For many years now, MADD has focused much of its considerable manpower (over 600 chapters), resources (revenues of over $51 million a year) and political influence on the proliferation of DUI roadblocks (or, to use the politically correct phrase, ?sobriety checkpoints?). To justify this invasion of our privacy, we have been repeatedly assured that ?checkpoints? are extremely effective in reducing alcohol-related traffic fatalities ? and these assurances have been accompanied by statistics. Let?s take a closer look at these “statistics”?. According to MADD’s own website, 40 states have checkpoints and 10 do not. Well, it would be interesting to compare the states with the highest percentage of alcohol-related fatalities with the list of states not using checkpoints: If MADD is correct, the states with the highest fatality rates will be the no-roadblock states...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on April 10, 2008 (boomark / email).