I guess I'm "old school" when it comes to the question of DUI stops.Not at all, I would just like to see cases built around driving behavior as opposed to a chemical test. Show me video of a guy driving left of center and failing a field sobriety test as opposed to a stop for going 5 mph over the speed limit and a print out that says .08 BAC.
I never participated in a checkpoint stop.
Whenever I made a DUI stop it was after I had sufficient Probable Cause to believe that the driver was impaired. When I was a "lil baby Cop" the nearest Breathalyzer was thirty five miles away. It wasn't time effective to leave town for several hours to administer the test, so I relied on other physical criteria to determine impairment. The downside to that was, there was no "scientific" evidence to back up the Officers observations.
I never lost a case but other Officers did.