Preserving Liberty While Increasing Safety: Why Indiana Should Outlaw Sobriety Checkpoints
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Drinking drivers missed at sobriety checkpoints.
OBJECTIVE Sobriety checkpoints are an effective deterrent to alcohol-impaired driving although a substantial proportion of drinking drivers who pass through checkpoints are missed. The present study was designed to determine the extent to which police officers correctly identify individuals with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or above 0.05% at checkpoints, and if there are characteristi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indiana Law Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0090-4198
DOI: 10.18060/4806.0019