Fritz,

The cops have no way who is the high offenders, but the one way to stop
someone from becoming a "high offender" (whatever that is), is to stop and
charge everyone guilt of DUI. The key to make sure these people do not
become a "high offender" is to make them attend a silly ass school, make
them do silly ass community hours, and give them a fine stiff enough to make
sure they don't make another silly ass mistake.

DUI, even at .08 is very serious.


"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"Dr. Dr. . R. Name" wrote in message
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Doug,
It is becoming normal for DUI violators to be charged with murder when a
death is involved. The charge might be murder in the 2nd degree, but
repeat
DUI violators who then have a DUI involving a death are being charged in
the
1st degree. I am aware of one person who received the death penalty for
a
DUI death.

I an not a proponent of the death penalty, but I am glad DUI is not being
aggressively prosecuted.

But, I wish the pursuit would be of the high offenders, the mindset
here(at least in some communities) seems to be to turn it into another
cash
cow for the guvmint.....with overaggressive enforcement at the lower end
( high fines, "community service" counseling,...which drums up more work
for
the 'connected' while the multiple repeat offenders seem to be able to get
away with it time and again. (one of my dock neighbors is a cop on a DUI
unit)



"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
This situation won't change until more prosecutors are prepared to
charge
violators with murder instead of manslaughter, and put them away for
LONG
periods of time. I'm aware of one case where this worked (for
automobile
DWI). Just one. I'm sure it's rare.

"Dr. Dr. . R. Name" wrote in message
...
Fritz,

The cops have no way who is the high offenders, but the one way to stop
someone from becoming a "high offender" (whatever that is), is to stop and
charge everyone guilt of DUI. The key to make sure these people do not
become a "high offender" is to make them attend a silly ass school, make
them do silly ass community hours, and give them a fine stiff enough to
make
sure they don't make another silly ass mistake.

DUI, even at .08 is very serious.

My point is that some communities have the mindset of quanitity nor
quality..........I would much rather have them patroling looking for the
driver weaving across lanes that blows a .25 rather than sitting around the
corner from the local pub waiting for the first car to pull out, or as they
do in some cases, road blocking.

DUI is serious, but it is not simply a matter of BAC..........it varies by
the person........
having had my dock neighbor cop m bring down his hand held unit to the dock
and test people during one of our dock parties, (the hard part was getting
people to not drink for 15 minutes so that the test would be valid) there
were some people who should not have been behind a wheel at .05, others
passed all the other sobriety tests at .10 or higher.




"P. Fritz" wrote in message
...

"Dr. Dr. . R. Name" wrote in message
...
Doug,
It is becoming normal for DUI violators to be charged with murder when
a
death is involved. The charge might be murder in the 2nd degree, but
repeat
DUI violators who then have a DUI involving a death are being charged
in
the
1st degree. I am aware of one person who received the death penalty
for
a
DUI death.

I an not a proponent of the death penalty, but I am glad DUI is not
being
aggressively prosecuted.

But, I wish the pursuit would be of the high offenders, the mindset
here(at least in some communities) seems to be to turn it into another
cash
cow for the guvmint.....with overaggressive enforcement at the lower
end
( high fines, "community service" counseling,...which drums up more work
for
the 'connected' while the multiple repeat offenders seem to be able to
get
away with it time and again. (one of my dock neighbors is a cop on a
DUI
unit)



"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
This situation won't change until more prosecutors are prepared to
charge
violators with murder instead of manslaughter, and put them away for
LONG
periods of time. I'm aware of one case where this worked (for
automobile
DWI). Just one. I'm sure it's rare.