And tell me what is wrong with keeping a drunk from getting on the road and causing an accident?
It puts people out of business, and never happens outside of sports stadiums or large arenas that produce revenue for the city. Just restaurants, bars, and general places where Americans interacted freely for many years before MADD nannied everyone’s pants off.
They are not grabbing “Drunks”. They are grabbing everyone hoping to catch a DUI. DUI’s in PA are a massive revenue stream in some of these communities to fund all the paramilitary outfits and bloated police forces. If you get a DUI in PA, it is focused on fines and fees and not deterrence.
When you have a police force injecting themselves into all of these gotcha sort of activities, it sours the relationship that the community has with the police. It builds distrust of the cops. It make the cops look like a Stazi style outfit instead of being considered the friend in the neighborhood.
There is also an economic factor. Many of these places, like Freemansburg, have bars and restaurants that are hurting with this. Who wants to go out to a place that has a police presence regardless of how drunk you are planning to get? Who wants to take a chance?
That’s a really good point. I have NO PROBLEM with the cops taking drunks off the road NIGHT and DAY.