Is driving if you are blind a thought crime as well? Until you run someone over?
Don't get me wrong, I STRONGLY dislike how current DUIs are handled. I think a breathalyzer should be OK to prove you are not drunk, but that bloodwork should be REQUIRED to show that you were after a failed breathalyzer; and I think that most traffic stops anymore are to pad the departments coffers. I should be able to have a drink and drive myself home without fear of incarceration.
However, I also know people killed by people who were drunk driving. I have been driving around drunks where they only thing that prevented an accident was extraordinary measures on my part. They didn't hurt me but they came really damn close. By your logic if someone shoots at me but I had the foresight to duck they wouldn't have caused me any harm?
Try driving around NM on a Friday/Saturday night out near the pueblos and then see if you think we should only arrest people after they actually kill someone.
-paridel
“Then, see if you think we should only arrest people after they actually kill someone”
There are a lot of posts on this thread but I don’t recall seeing one, not one, that advocates not arresting folks who are actually guilty of driving impaired.
“I also know people who were killed by people drunk driving”
So? I actually know people killed by people who were driving sober.
Here’s an idea that I think would make the roads a whole lot safer. If you are negligent and you kill someone driving then you go to jail. Only exception is if you only kill yourself.