Yes MADD has turned DUI into an industry designed to build jails, fund courthouses, make attornes rich.
It’s a big racket.
If they cared about DUI, they would simply say that life taken as a result of intoxication results in class A felony and life imprisonment.
Property damage or injury life sentences.
Problem solved, no repeat offenders.
No rinky dink checkpoints. Fewer cops. No BAC analyzers sold. No interlock devices. No probation officers.
But that would leave attorneys poorer, and courthouses unfunded, and you wouldn’t need all those assistant DA’s or most of the judges. Fewer jails built and fewer drunk drivers. We can’t have that.
Where do you think that counties get the labor to clean up roadside garbage and whack the weeds along the highways every weekend?
It's called being sentenced to community service.
-PJ