Why do you think the guy wants help in the first place? You can’t make someone stop being an alcoholic, druggie, or thief if that is what they want to be. They have to want to change. If his goal is to get drunk at every opportunity, how can the cop do anything but get him off the road?
If he was a drunk at home the cop never would have met him. The fact he is a drunk that wants to be on the roadway means he is a danger to others. If the cop knows him, then the cop knows him from being a drunk in public and a danger.
Yep. Let’s all house and feed this guy for the next 5 yrs at the tume of $150,000. And that doesn’t count the courts and attorneys time. For riding a lawnmower after some beers is guilt of a third degree felony, and now we have to pay. Seems kind of silly.