[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/05/us/colears-hook-park-nyc-truc...
I agree; there is absolutely selective and biased placement in many municipalities. That's another good reason to put red-light cameras on every light, and to turn traffic violations into a sliding scale based on income, car value, and other factors (like the car's weight, as a good proxy for the damage it can do to pedestrians or other drivers).
1. Mobile DMV units checks to see if your car inspection sticker is expired. It has nothing to do with DUI or DUI prevention.
2. Monmouth Junction is actually not a town but a census designated place in South Brunswick Township, a rather large municipality by NJ standards.
3. What on earth would a DMV inspection do to prevent someone who's license is already suspended from driving? Clearly they don't care and are going to keep driving anyway.
There was another article suggesting that this driver was also driving without a mounted plate, which I assume would similarly have been caught. But I take your point for other cases, if they aren't checking licenses.
Regarding the emissions checkpoints, I wonder if they still pull over EVs and give them tickets for other violations. Since NJ only does emissions inspections, EVs don't require inspections at all, so maybe it's harder to justify the stop in the first place?