Then the legislature needs to change the law. Police are only doing their job if the law is simply about public drunkenness. It just still seems to me to be a poor use of resources, though, when the state, I would assume, has a lot of other problems. And they should toughen up on DUI rather than go inside the bars. But the legislature needs to do their job.
"And they should toughen up on DUI rather than go inside the bars."
Toughen up on dui? DUI laws and the enforcement thereof is about as tough as they can get...anything more is prohibition.
I gotta theory on this. Current dui laws are not consistent with getting drunk drivers off the roads. What? People are still being killed maimed and mutilated by drunk drivers even with all these tough dui laws and enforcement.
DUI today is really nothing more than a revenue generator. Before dui we had dwd or dwi, where cops only actually locked up real drunks. Not true today. Today, cops are busy generating income chasing the guys who have had a few beers...and lord that keeps them busy and the coffers full. Meantime, the actual drunk driver, a real threat to us all, is missed because cpl just doin my duty jr. is busy locking up the guy who was ok to drive but failed the breath test at a near plus or minus ridiculous .08. Follow the money.
I believe if the law and enforcement were to return to a reasonable .15, cops would be available to respond to cell phone calls regarding an actual drunk driver...and actual drunk drivers would be caught more often than they are today. The result would be a reduction in fatal accidents involving actual drunk drivers. I am convinced that less actual drunk drivers are caught today because cops are so busy enforcing unreasonable laws at .08.
Again, while avg joe who had a few beers but was actually ok to drive is in the squad car, a real threat just slipped by and will kill someone later.