Cops stop thousands of people in order to catch 17 drunk drivers

Seventeen drivers on South Powers Boulevard were cited for DUI at the checkpoint that's part of the State of Colorado's 100 Days of Heat.

That's 17, out of 2,787 cars stopped in the 400 block of South Powers Boulevard.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/drivers-57937-overnight-dui.html

I am sure the police would call this is win for them, after all they nabbed 17 “bad guys”. However, for thousands of innocent people this was definitely a lose. Not just those who were inconvenienced by the stop, but also all of the taxpayers who had to pay for the wasteful police action. This was on a holiday weekend, so I am sure holiday pay and overtime were in abundance.