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Drunk driving is a misdemeanor and they have DUI check points every weekend and saturation patrols(additional units) from 10pm to 3am. I've been pulled over mu
by adrr 7y ago
Drunk driving is a misdemeanor and they have DUI check points every weekend and saturation patrols(additional units) from 10pm to 3am. I've been pulled over multiple times for bogus reasons(license plate light out) to check to see if i am drunk. Prop 47 has nothing to do with it.
- devwastaken 7y agoDrunk driving tends to kill more people. There's only a number of things resources can be allocated to police.
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- tomatotomato37 7y agoIf police units have enough resources to field fully-kitted SWAT units with APCs they have enough resources to put a couple beat cops on theft duty
- adrr 7y agoDUI checkpoints don't catch drunk drivers. They catch unlicensed drivers. Next time you you roll through one, thank the police officer for keeping the community safe and then ask how many drunks they arrested that night.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoExactly. They make their real money as a pretext to issue petty citations to people they wouldn't have otherwise stopped. Actual drunks are just the pretext. Sure they'd be happy to catch a few but they're the bonus not the goal.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoThat doesn't seem too terrible - we want unlicensed drivers off the roads too don't we? Whether or not they can drive well, they will be uninsured, which is clearly a risk to everyone else.
- macinjosh 7y agoForgive me, but I am having a hard time following the logic/connection here. The connection you mention is that they are both misdemeanors. However, they are completely different crimes. As you mention the cops use checkpoints to catch drunk drivers. Checkpoints are efficient for the cops (though constitutionally questionable). Car burglaries can't be stopped by checkpoints and take more resources to investigate. I'll also mention that drunk drivers caught at checkpoints are arrested for a victimless crime while every car burglary has a victim.
- adrr 7y agoYou missed the point. It takes resources to run a checkpoint for 6 hours. If you take the same number of cops and had them investigate property crime, it would make a huge difference. It doesn't take much time to investigate property crime. They don't even both to take the video footage from the cars. Just ask on any Tesla forum where all the cars have a motion activated security cameras. They could spend 5 minutes to take the screen cap of the person and send it out to all the officer and community.
- macinjosh 7y ago100% agree. Thanks for clarifying.
- brianwawok 7y agoDrunk drivers kill people Change thief’s cost a little money to insurance companies Ideally both are stopped. But I would rather more drunk drivers are stopped over more change thieves.
- Singletoned 7y agoDUI is as victimless as shooting a gun into a crowd and happening not to hit anyone. Just because you got lucky doesn't mean it's victimless.
- macinjosh 7y agoI am not saying we shouldn't arrest drunk drivers. Drunk driving is bad. If someone drives while a tiny bit drunk and they make it home safely who exactly is the victim in that specific case? Its a gray area and I think its best to be on the side of caution but lets at least be honest about it.