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i live in the desert area of southern california. They do several interesting things here. Firstly, they don't have drug checkpoints. they have DWI/registration checkpoints. They have typically done this between 2pm and 10 pm. Seems an odd time to try and catch drunks. Secondly, an issue came up about the amount of time people were being stopped in traffic(it backed up taffic for 10 to 20 minutes at times) and just randomly stopping people to check their registration. So a decision was made to annouce when these stops would be, so they would announce them on the radio, like the easy listening station and the talk radio station at 7 am in the morning and just once or twice. The argument being that you were warned of the checkpoint so you gave consent to be checked by driving on that road. Of course to go around them in my area would require a detour of about 12 miles or so. They havent had one in awhile though, so maybe legal action forced them to stop. It dont have all the information, just what i could pick up, and doing research about it seems about as easy as drinking beer through a rock.