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by red-iron-pine 1205 days ago
> The DUI checkpoints up in BC are wild too, I'm glad they are banned in Washington and Oregon. Suspicionless stopping of cars en masse followed by interrogation by police seems like an overreach.

There has been a lot of pushback to DUIs. I did a poli-sci BA thesis on it. Essentially its one of the few times they make exception to constitutional rights, and assume guilt without due process.

A fairly deep explanation of what I'm talking about, and why states like WA gave up on it:

https://www.duicentral.com/dui/the-dui-exception/