Multi-Agency No Refusal Initiative Targets Drunk Drivers in Harr

Airborne319: Isn't the key word intoxicated. Are you saying if I, for instance, drink one, maybe 2 beers and I get stopped, the police smell alcohol an arrest ensues(this assumes no other traffic violation occurs)?

bigcity :
No - what they are saying is that if they pull you over you cannot refuse a breathalyzer or you go to jail.

Maver1ck : Just to reset this - my understanding is that profiling as it was defined for law enforcement purposes - is the use of predictive data to slim the target pool of suspects to likely perps. In the case of terrorism, statistics proved that military aged Muslim men from countries with a history of radicalization were far more likely to be terrorists than a white middle aged lady from Kingwood. When federal law enforcement was found to be using this information to target people, profiling was deemed to be bad. So - isn't that exactly what forcing someone who once had a DUI to breathe into a breathalyzer is? Aren't we profiling someone? If so, are we saying that its okay when the DUIs are involved, but not terrorism? That just makes no sense at all legally. Its either bad or its not. Again the issue is not the DUI. Its the inconsistency of the application of good and bad.

Maver1ck : I am not in favor of drunks in 7000 lb death wagons driving around running into people. But I am in favor of things making some kind of sense. Sometimes it feels like we are just running around pandering to the whim of the day with no memory of what happened yesterday.

Shame it only goes through a few days. I personally know someone with FOUR DUI's - only once did 30 days in jail, released, license fully restored, no probation, no nothing. Free to drink and drive again.

I don't have a problem with this. Of course, I rarely drink, I NEVER go out on New Years anymore, I have zero tolerance or sympathy for drunk drivers.