There is a class of people who often drive with a BAC of 0.15 or higher, and cause a lot of accidents. Some of these people have had their licenses revoked, been thrown in jail, and had their vehicles confiscated, and yet when they get out of jail they start driving again and get into even more accidents. This group of people rightfully deserves to be condemned.
There is another, much larger, class of people, which occasionally drive with a BAC that may occasionally reach 0.08-0.10; this group of people does not have nearly the passenger-mile accident rate of the former group. Indeed, this group's passenger-mile accident rate is not significantly worse than that of the population as a whole, and some members of this group are safer drivers than some other people who never drink.
Why do you wish to condemn every member of the second group, when it's the first group that's causing the disporportionate number of accidents, and when every year a prison cell is used to house a member of the second group is a year it isn't being used to house a member of the first?
Why don't you instead try to have resources focused where they will do some good, like going after the 0.15+BAC drivers?
"This group of people rightfully deserves to be condemned."
Yes they do.
"this group of people does not have nearly the passenger-mile accident rate of the former group"
(ill agree with that stated that way but they still Crash.)
"Indeed, this group's passenger-mile accident rate is not significantly worse than that of the population as a whole"
Can you post a link for that?
"every year a prison cell is used to house a member of the second group is a year it isn't being used to house a member of the first?"
Expell all the illegal aliens and jail them all.
After all 1/3 of our federal jails have illegals taking up beds.
OH WAIT There is two groups there too. One group 'just wants to work' and the other comes here to commit crimes, punish one and not the other right? That is your logic.
"Why don't you instead try to have resources focused where they will do some good, like going after the 0.15+BAC drivers?"
I advocate going after those above .08.... .15 is included.
per my prior example.....spend the resources only going after the illegals that are criminals and leave the ones'that just want to work' alone eh?
You might buy that but I dont.
I will offer to you the difference in the comparison. What you ask for is already being done. Above .08 and below .08. People that are below .08 are allowed to legally drive. As they should be.
What you seek is simply to move the current scale.
I hope you never experience what I have.
Have you ever been convicted of a DUI?