Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.auto Subject: Re: DWI Roadblocks Message-ID: <11358@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 16:30:47 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11358 Posted: Fri Jun 28 16:30:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:17:31 EDT References: <979@homxa.UUCP> <3893@alice.UUCP> <3108@drutx.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.legal:1803 net.auto:7199 > I frankly think the Court is right on target, considering drunks are involved > in roughly half of the 50,000 yearly fatalities from auto accidents this > country experiences. I would gladly endure random stops, considering > that driving is like playing Russian Roulette - you never know which driver > is loaded. > Actually, what we really need is a system to enforce prosecution on the DWI cases that we find before we go large scale looking for new people to add to the criminal justice system. It is next to impossible to get a simple DWI conviction with a meaningful sentence, let alone something more realistic like vehicular homicide, for the drunken redneck in the monster four-by-four who just flattened some poor third party. The system is not working in Maryland. I know. I get stuck checking out the dead bodies and handling the drunks. -Ron Natalie, EMT-A, IVT, Baltimore County Fire Department.