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This is another in the long line of victimless crimes which shouldnt be crimes at all.
If a guy actually goes out and drives drunk, and a cop gets video of him weaving all over the road, then go ahead and arrest him for reckless driving. But the mere fact of alcohol in his bloodstream doesn't necessarily predict how badly he will drive -- even if he intended to drive at all.
... the "just might happen" rationale in the absence of actual historical events in a quantity that indicates real risk to anyone!
Ah, but that's a whole 'nother discussion... :)
It still has a religious feel to it. If you say we go overboard demonizing this one risky behavior, some people react like it's blasphemy. I knew someone who was convicted of driving slightly over the BAC limit. She was so hard on herself. I said it's certainly not a good thing to do, but I think we go overboard condeming it. She started telling me I was insensitive to the lives put at risk, she was so thankful she got caught, and she condemned any drunk driving apologists. Okay. I kind of got the feeling she wanted to impute other misanthropic feelings on this one issue, in an original sin way.
the one failure was a falsified charge sheet where i had listed reckless driving damage, injuries, no deaths. The sheet had been changed to DUI. No way to prove that. Before I got to him other people had given him several stiff drinks. after incident before BAT. So? Went to Internal Affairs....I don't call that a happy ending ..oh well win some, lose some, some people are indeed dirty. including that one percent on the police forces.
Anyone reading this who was there at the time will know exactly what and whom I'm talking about.
Never accept No Fault if you are good to go in court. In the long run an attorney is less expensive.
Hey, it's Detroit. They need the money so badly that I wouldn't put it last them.
Combine this with Obama's new guidelines for arrest using 'suspicion of' in place of 'probable cause' the humor suddenly flees - for it's life.
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I actually think this and smoking weed in your own house would appeal to the left if they were made to think about it.
It just doesn't appeal to the masses when they are in lynching-mode.
What a joke. An illiterate marginalizer
The worst I've heard of is a friend who went to the mall with his wife. He had "too many" at lunch and gave the keys to his wife. He returned to the car while she did more shopping. A local cop spotted him, determined he was over the limit, and charged him with "intent to drive intoxicated". His wife returned with the keys, sober, and explained she was going to drive, but he was still taken in, booked and convicted.
It's possible he had an attitude with the cop, but that's not a crime either.
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Following the wisdom of AR I know walk away from another lost cause
sentence and avoid voting for people who lead to
more serfdom. . like the Ds and Rs. . he's for Gary
Johnson regardless. -- j
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Guess which one Obama would tap to make decisions on the SCOTUS.
Accordingly we wielded an extreme amouont of power. Something as simple as the date to appear which could be any date we street police chose. within a certain amount. Before, on, or after a payday often made a difference. Deciding who to charge and with what. A speeding military vehicle operator given orders to drive faster by a senior officer often resulted in a warning for the driver and an arrest for the offending officer. The charge was misprision of office - a felony. Back to the DUI or DWI amazing how many cold not remember where they parked the automobile the next day. We were able to divert the real problem people into various programs on many occasions. On the other hand when it was truly deserved we could exhibit no mercy at all.
Officers with the least accident rates including those involving passengers and ambulance calls invariably wrote the most warning tickets
were u an MP ? Or just worked somewhere that much of the population was military or govt ?Just curious.
Driver is offered a a blood alcohol test the smell of alcohol is evident which means an alcoholic type beverage as alcohol has no smell.
While that is in progress the vehicle is impounded and moved to a secure location. Now it is the responsibility of the police department along with all contents a video is made of the now open glove box and the trunk. Also any car rental style scratches or dents. a paint flake comes loose. Sent to the lab for matchup on anything pending. That's fishing. but in the trunk a box of various pharmaceuticals and powders is plainly seen along with a shot gun and two pistols. These taken into custody and fingerprinted with serial numbers run. and so on. Driver brought back from the hospital and the BAT. Zero but the small tallied with an open bottle that had spilled. It is finger printed. Normal arrest procedures follow including the all important Miranda Escobedo warnings.
On the other hand nothing is found and a warning issued concerning the open and now empty bottle ....
Just a rough idea but the key is gain legal access to the vehicle and the key to that is impound or removed for safety of the vehicle on behalf of the owner. Probable Cause is or is not established.
In road side stops consistency is required. One does not stop one car but a series of cars. Easy enough. A bend in the road with an increase in speed limit will always find Fifty percent setting off the speed gun.
They are all checked to the same extent. Reason. Around the next bend is a school area and it's time for departure to home - for the students. Traffic has been getting complaints from worried parents.
The new system skips all that and goes for 'mere suspicion' without anything else. required.
Some of the ways to legally press the limits without violating civil rights.versus the new Obama Cause lack of requirement for any reason whatsoever with no civil rights needed after the arrest.
85 Senators voted for Obama Lite Rites or is it Last Rights with no limits on who, when, where, why, how or What's Up? So did a majority of Representatives.
Reason....They wanted to get home early? They didn't read the entire bill? It's in the omnibus funding bill that took headlines crowing about the government not being shut down. No and it never was and never will be. But your civil rights were shot to shit.
Still going to vote for them again?
Do they use that. Maybe yes maybe no but it's now legal to arrest on 'suspicion of terrorism or support of terrorism. What defines terrorism? Mere suspicion.
When our jobs left along with the Carter Church Kennedy I declined to work in the same field and went back into the military (infantry) where it was safer.
I also question the whole idea of drunk driving being a crime. Obvious it's a horrible thing to do, but it seems like we single it out over other dangerous behaviors.
I am not saying I want to legalize impaired driving. It just feels like people and gov't design cities around cars and then rightly say your health status is everyone's business because you're putting others at risk when you choose to drive a car. It is a choice, but we don't make it easy to move around in other ways. Choosing to use a car or commercial aviation, i.e. the main ways people move in our society, causes you to forfeit rights, and I wish there were a way for it not to be that way.
Oddly, a bicycle has the rights and responsibilities of a car on the road, but does not require a license.
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stranglehold which we have on travel with all of
these licenses! -- j
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