Many people believe that impaired driving cases are open and shut. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Take the case of Travis Dunkle, a 42-year-old 17 year veteran detective with the Calgary Police Service.

In January 2009, Dunkle was stopped in a “check stop” by a fellow officer. If you don’t know, a check stop is essentially a randomly placed police roadblock designed to detect impaired drivers. In most cases there is no evidence of “impaired driving” (e.g. bad driving caused by impairment) since the person simply pulls into the check stop and talks to a police officer. So in Dunkle’s case, there was likely no evidence of impaired driving. So why was he charged? Continue reading “Impaired driving charges against Calgary Cop thrown out.” »