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Originally Posted by kane
Most of the time they pull someone over for a broken light or something petty so they can check to make sure you aren't driving with a suspended license or without insurance.
At least if they were late responding to a call because they had someone pulled over it was them doing their job, not acting as a taxi service for someone who can't take responsibility for themselves.
I'm not a heavy drinker. I probably drink a few times a months and get drunk a few times a year. I have never EVER, not once driven drunk. Not that I think I can tell that I know how much booze can make me drunk. If I go out to dinner and I am driving I drink no booze. If I go to a friends and I am driving home, I don't drink any booze. NEVER! Not once!. I'm not saying people have to be as anal about it as I am. I think a person could go out and have a beer or a glass of wine with dinner and be fine, but there is absolutely no excuse for going to a bar, having 10 shots of booze, getting falling down drunk and driving.
So I ask for the third time, how do you suggest we deter people from drinking and driving? You say finding and jailing them won't work. So great! What will? Send them to a treatment class? For how long? What kind of punishment do you get if you don't complete the classes?
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I applaud you in your convictions but it's just not how everyone is.. We all have our "rebeliousness" I guess.. And considering there are over 1 million laws on the books in the US thanks to everyone wanting to control everyone else it leads to us all
The average American commits three felonies a day.
I guess if they don't complete the treatments there's not much you can do. But it costs much less and it can be tried and tried again for much less.. Jail isn't going to do anything but cost us all more money I can tell you that.
BTW "driving" "driver" is one conducting business on the roadways such as a truck or taxi cab driver. Confirmed by multiple supreme court rulings. Not a man or woman traveling from point a to b..