Uh, anyone who gets a second DWI should be doing 1-3 years in the hoosegow. It's the toleration of multiple DWIs that leads to one of these cretins slamming into some unsuspecting schlub on his way home from work, killing a family breadwinner.
Put 'em in jail!!
Of course they should. But these plates are silly, and a substitute for the kind of enforcement you describe. No surprise for the wussy NY legislature.