Do DUI laws lower the number of drivers on the road that have consumed alcohol?
Everyone agrees drinking and driving is bad. The question is, are DUI laws effective in reducing this harmful behavior? What are the statistics? ...
Everyone agrees drinking and driving is bad. The question is, are DUI laws effective in reducing this harmful behavior? What are the statistics?
When someone is convicted of DUI, he/she will think twice about driving drunk in the future after getting his/her next car insurance bill. I had an employee who got nailed for DUI. Hi insurance went from about $1,000 ro almost $10,000 a year. He had to quit and move back to NYC where he didn’t need a car.
Not sure what the gov skews their stats at, but here in Arizona they put up radar cameras to ensure public safety while laying off police officers.
Now the drunk driver can smile and say cheese as he/she drives drunk!!
The governor put out (now she is officer of homeland security, Janet Napoliano under his messiah’s rule, Obama) that the cameras have lowered fatalities by some percentage since inception. My question was, how do they come up with that since the cameras were installed mid year and by year end they were saying that the cameras reduced death on the freeways? That alone sounds wrong to me, how about a full year worth of data and give us the stats, not just the statement.
As far as statistics go, I do not know. But yes, DUI laws are effective as they allow officers to pull people over that they suspect have been drinking. If the driver has been drinking, then the officer does what he needs to do. People don’t want a DUI, so a lot of people will avoid driving after a night of drinking.
However, we cannot prevent all drinking and driving as we don’t have the necessary technology (so to speak) to do that.
I live in California and when I drove throgh AZ they cameras mounted on highway patrol cars filming you and if you were speeding you get a ticket in the mail. Maybe AZ is duing something right because my state "CA" sure as heck aint.