Actual drunks who drive drunk do it all the time, not just during holidays.
The fact that the checkpoints “work” during holidays just means you’re ensnaring the father driving his family home from a nice dinner where he had a couple of drinks and triggered the “no tolerance” numbers.
Meanwhile the actual drunks see the checkpoint half a mile down the road and turn down a side street instead of lining up since he knows he’s drunk.
But to the MADD types, it’s more about demonizing someone having a glass of wine than actually putting a stop to dangerous drunks.
I’d like to say that all checkpoints should be against the Constitution! Too bad that it is not so...
I don't know why they're saying checkpoints are banned in TX. I ran into one a few years ago south of Houston, near NASA.
And when I say "ran into" what I really meant was "I saw the checkpoint and pulled into a strip mall and successfully evaded it by driving around it.
I was told later by a local that in TX you are allowed to flip a U turn or perform any maneuver to avoid a checkpoint, because the maneuver itself is not probable cause for the police stop you. That would explain why, of all the people backed up in traffic at the checkpoint, a full 50% joined me in driving around the checkpoint in full view of the police, and the police did not act.