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As dui arrests seem to topple the typical officer’s desk every Monday, some begin to question some cases.  Officers all over the country have been caught making false dui arrests, causing one to question are these dui arrests more for safety or just another rapid revenue process like photo radar. In Arizona a first time offender will spend a night in jail, and be forced to use an interlock device (device blown into in order to start car) for at least a year. These harsh punishments for first time offenders have caused job loss, bankruptcy, and a loss of driving privileges.

These laws seem to be clean cut for the police officer; if you are above there “legal limit” you are going to get arrested for dui, regardless of why you were pulled over.  How can this be such a harsh punishment when the number of drinks fluctuates from person to person, from male to female? For example; some friends of mine in Wisconsin can drink about 8-10 beers when they finally start to catch a buzz, while the folks over in Arizona have just a couple beers and find themselves stumbling to the bathroom. These laws need to be reformed with a more precise way to determine if one is drunk driving, especially with such harsh punishment if convicted. Drunk driving does kill many people each year, the penalty if caught driving drunk should be harsh; but instead of screwing someone’s life upside down with job loss, late payments, car loss, driving privileges suspended, jail time, and bankruptcy, get them involved in the community with a whopping amount of community service hours to help keep them busy, and distracted from there usual drinking habits. Everyone makes mistakes, instead of harsh punishment; let’s try some harsh rehabilitation so repeat offences don’t happen.

In a recent controversy in Hollywood, a patrol officer rear ended a woman in town while officers cover it up, blaming the women for drinking and driving. On Tuesday, he ordered the four officers and crime scene technician suspended with pay and launched an internal investigation. “I realize and understand those that feel a sense of betrayal over this incident,” Wagner told a news conference. “And I ask each and every one of you to allow this investigative process to run its course, and to have confidence that this matter will be investigated accurately and professionally.” It was ordered only after a police dashboard camera video surfaced, in which one can hear police officers and the crime scene technician discussing how they will falsify their report to pin blame for the crash on a drunken driving suspect, instead of the officer who ran into her from behind. Finkelstein said Friday that he was the one who leaked the video, because he felt the public, defense attorneys in particular, should know about the incident. The controversy, the latest in a long line of scandals to rock Hollywood’s police force, has spurred public pressure for the officers to be fired or punished.

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