It’s getting weird in the DUI world. If you haven’t been paying attention, DUI arrests are on a sharp decline. They were way down a few years ago, and they are currently down from even those numbers. You’d think that would be a good thing, right? You’d think police departments would beating their chests and issuing press releases touting how their cutting edge enforcement efforts have finally worked. Or talking about how the smoking ban in bars has cut down on DUI. Or telling us how great this brutal winter was at keeping drunks off the road.
Apparently, they’re not. Some of them are doing quite the opposite… they’re telling us how they need to change the way they do things. They’re telling us how they need to spend more money. They’re telling us, loud and proud, in this article today: