Police always have choices and while yours might sound good in theory, IMO the officer made the wrong choice this time. Woman asleep in her car, found to have been drinking; Take her keys, take her license away from her, send her away for treatment for 90 days, make sure her auto insurance carrier knows of the charges and then put a device on her car to prevent her driving in the future if she’s had anything to drink. But throw her in a cell like this? No way - nobody learned anything, she’s going to get a boat load of money from the city. Cop should be fired.
Or, if not fired, have his weapons take away and put on permanent duty where he is only allowed to go through dumpsters on evidence searches. If he doesn’t like that he can retire.
He acted sadistically.
Probably sick of repeat offenders such as her.
She was innocently snoozing, or passed out wasted in the drivers seat with keys in the ignition.
This is NOT her first time driving drunk. And we have a legal system which does not take away the right to drive for a repeat offender.
A car is a deadly weapon and it can kill = innocents.
This cop is in a world of trouble, and should be. and with our drunk driving enabling legal system, probably bought her some kind of a ticket to drink and drive again.
We can be sure a two month rehab is not going to get a 47 year old life long drinker sober.
On military bases, they don’t allow drunk driving.
One offense and the career is over, no driving privleges no matter what the circumstances.
One offense.
Cop is sick of it, probably, our country letting people drive drunk.
Of course he was wrong.
We can only hope. I also hope the cop is fired and blacklisted for employment by any other LE agency so that he can never work in LE again. Bullies and short-tempered hotheads have no place in LE, and the people who pay taxes to fund LEO paychecks should demand that people like the cop in this situation are not hired for that job.