This type of thing happens more often that you might think. Officers are human, and they are sometimes guilty of perceptional bias. They see what they want to see. They mentally manufacture evidence to support their conclusions, rather than making calculations based on the evidence and then forming a conclusion. This is another great article from the Phoenix New Times.

Quoted from http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-05-29/news/heather-squires-was-arrested-for-dui-without-drinking-a-drop-of-alcohol/:

Heather Squires was arrested for DUI without drinking a drop of alcohol, page 1 – News – Phoenix New Times – Phoenix New Times

And that’s this: In this time of anti-DUI zeal, are police so eager to make arrests that everyone on the road at night is presumed to be a drunk driver?

It’s interesting to read the affidavit that Officer Gonzalez wrote that night about Heather Squires, intending to ask the Motor Vehicles Division of ADOT to yank her license. (He never mailed it

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