MADDness

[Bible_Belt]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/20/madd-paid-800k-to-help-new-mexico-shame-dwi-suspec/

Here's your tax dollars at work. It was only $800K, but after the ACLU sues, the cost will be well over a million. MADD is a corporate pseudo-charity. They are a political money-raising machine, powered by fake statistics, Washington lobbyists, and the DUI madness of the modern police state.

MADD paid $800K to help New Mexico shame DWI suspects, lenient judges on social media

New Mexico’s Department of Transportation will reportedly begin broadcasting case updates on DWI suspects and the judges who go easy on them, thanks to a $800,000 federal grant-funded contract with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).

Republican Gov. Susana Martinez said MADD will monitor DWI cases in at least six New Mexico counties hit hardest by drunk driving and then send details about those cases to department officials, who will identify repeat offenders and the judges in official tweets...

...The program, which is set to launch in June, includes plans to have MADD send daily updates to the transportation department after court hearings of some DWI defendants in Bernalillo, Doña Ana, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and San Juan counties, The Journal reported.

The transportation department will then use a Twitter account to post updates on those cases as they move through the court system. The tweets will include already public information, but the department is still determining whether to include the mugshots of defendants, Loren Hatch, a deputy secretary at DOT, told The Journal...

...The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico said it is reviewing the new program, spokesman Micah McCoy told Fox News.

Democratic state Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas called the program a public relations stunt that unfairly places the blame on judges and prosecutors.

“Blaming a judge for not enough conviction rates is like blaming [a baseball] umpire for not enough strikeouts,” he told Fox News.

 

[TheVirtualMind]

As someone that was almost killed by a drunk driver (and who still has medical issues years later), and who has arrested several dozen, the court system is a JOKE.

Get hammered, hit someone head on, then try to flee the scene, all while you have a CDL (Commercial Drivers License)? "Oh, don't do it again. By the way, you can't drive for a few weeks and you have to go to AA. The person you nearly killed? Sorry bro."

Have multiple DUI's and be so drunk you can't stand and then try to assault the cops? "Eh...He didn't mean it. I know you got every dui clue Officer, but...I'm gonna give him a break."

Drive hammered with kids in the car? "1 week of no driving. You taught your kids a bad lesson."

Then again, these are the same judges that will put a felon in possession of a handgun in the commission of a crime in a diversion program for the tenth time, then wonder why that person commits another armed robbery and shoots someone...

 

[Tictac]

I have no sympathy for anyone cited or arrested for drunk or even buzzed driving - NONE.

For judges that just wave these idiots back behind the wheel, I have even less sympathy. The should be cited for creating a public nuisance and thrown off the bench.

 

[Bible_Belt]

In poor counties like mine, where there is no valuable property to tax, the county's #1 source of income is fines and fees. DUI is the most profitable business the state ever invented.

If the government didn't want people to speed, they'd put a speed governor in every vehicle. Why does every car go 100+ mph, when that is not legal anywhere? The answer is that they want you to speed. It's a voluntary tax. DUI is the same thing. If we really wanted to stop it, there would be a breathalyzer in every car. But there isn't. The police state would go bankrupt without this powerful revenue-raising tool.

 

[Tictac]

In poor counties like mine, where there is no valuable property to tax, the county's #1 source of income is fines and fees. DUI is the most profitable business the state ever invented.

If the government didn't want people to speed, they'd put a speed governor in every vehicle. Why does every car go 100+ mph, when that is not legal anywhere? The answer is that they want you to speed. It's a voluntary tax. DUI is the same thing. If we really wanted to stop it, there would be a breathalyzer in every car. But there isn't. The police state would go bankrupt without this powerful revenue-raising tool.

Who are you? Harrison Bergeron?

 

[backseatjuan]

Haha! I'm a DWI victim, I got caught while driving drunk. I paid 30,000 rubles fine and am suspended for one and a half years. That day I drank six beers, and about 1.5 liters of moon shine and vodka. I refused to take a piss and breathalyzer test and got suspended automatically, so technically I wasn't drunk.

 

[backseatjuan]

Haha! I'm a DWI victim, I got caught while driving drunk. I paid 30,000 rubles fine and am suspended for one and a half years. That day I drank six beers, and about 1.5 liters of moon shine and vodka. I refused to take a piss and breathalyzer test and got suspended automatically, so technically I wasn't drunk.