Anecdotally, my experience growing up in the rural south of the USA (not MS) is that the police would often let things slide for a member of the community that

Anecdotally, my experience growing up in the rural south of the USA (not MS) is that the police would often let things slide for a member of the community that they knew. I.e. rather than a formal DUI, the individual would get a ride home and have to pick up their keys at the sheriff's office in the morning. This type of sentiment could be aligned with lax open container laws which could affect such data.