But to dismiss the widespread abuse of checkpoints as a minor inconvenience or fact of life, as many of the Special Rapporteur &apos; s interlocutors suggested, is to ignore three deeply corrosive effects: (i) checkpoints provide the occasion for a large number of extra-judicial executions by police; (ii) checkpoint abuses have deeply alienated the general public; and (iii) the economic consequences are enormous.
But to dismiss the widespread abuse of checkpoints as a minor inconvenience or fact of life, as many of the Special Rapporteur &apos; s interlocutors suggested, is to ignore three deeply corrosive effects: (i) checkpoints provide the occasion for a large number of extra-judicial executions by police; (ii) checkpoint abuses have deeply alienated the general public; and (iii) the economic consequences are enormous.