I'm a big supporter of Law Enforcement, but I had one occasion of "probable cause or reasonable suspicion" when I was asked to do a field sobriety test, the only one I have ever done or will ever do. My "crime" was a license plate bulb was out on my 2 year old car while driving at night. Not speeding, not driving erratic, just a license plate bulb out.
My no pics gal and I had been to our Company Christmas party and I honestly and correctly told the young man I had 2 drinks with dinner (I'm 6'0" - 198 lbs). I was polite, and told the truth, not slurring my words, or anything of the sort. Still I was taken out of the car and frisked, then asked to do a field sobriety test (It was about -10 wind chill at the time).
And I passed that field sobriety test no problem, but wait, this young Officer says I didn't pass it! I'm like WTF! (clearly this guy wants to bust somebody for drunk driving hopefully). By that time a more experienced Officer had shown up, and I could tell by the look on his face he was wondering what in the hell he was doing there out watching this and freezing his ass off.
So ultimately he says we need you to blow in this box. Fine. I blow in the damn box and he dejectedly looked at the results and asked if I wanted to see the result. By this time my politeness was wearing thin, I said no I'm freezing my ass off and just want to go home. Well, you passed, it's .03. I sarcastically said no kidding, that's been pretty clear for the past 45 minutes and I knew I had passed your stupid test, but here we are.
Point being that field sobriety test is a scam. I'm athletic and coordinated and clearly wasn't drunk and knew I did everything asked of me properly. I am assuming I can opt out of that scam in the future and just say get your damn box out and let's get this over with.