How about, instead of playing games with DUI, lets make the following changes:
1. If you create property damage, drunk, while in a car, you go to jail for 10 years and your property is seized to pay for the damage, and future wages are seized if necessary to pay for the damages. Hard labor on a road crew.
2. If you kill somebody driving drunk it’s a Murder One charge.
3. Eliminate the breathalyzer, until and unless somebody causes property damage or a death.
What this does is it eliminates the entire industry surrounding DUI. It get’s rid of the cops, the courts, the lawyers playing the DUI game. It eliminates checkpoints. It eliminates the jobs of DA’s, Cops, and other otherwise unemployable attorneys. It eliminates record keeping at the court house. More city jobs gone, gone gone. It also eliminates drunk drivers.
But then again, nobody really wants to solve the problem of DUI. They just want to hire more armed union thugs, and otherwise unemployable lawyers, and give cops reasons to set up unconstitutional road blocks.
I like your thinking.
my ? stems from a recent case here where mom lended her car to her daughter who had no license or insurance then runs someone over , crippling them for life and bankrupting them with medical bills.
all while texting on her phone...
I’d like that.