re: Pretty huge drop in youth DUIs in Baton Rouge

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The quoted article in the OP references the task force though. They're still around? I never ever see them posted up like they used to be.

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They are. Lot of the same old timers, too.

They fought it because to get a DUI erased from your record cost close to $10K. In NR, DUI’s and MIP’s were never about safety and all about money.

We would have all used the hell out of Uber and Lyft in college. I'm glad to see this.

I also wonder how BR is going to make up the DUI revenue decline? Tax increases on Uber and Lyft probably.

Back the blue

Cops are here to protect and serve

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Joshjrn

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I also wonder how BR is going to make up the DUI revenue decline? Tax increases on Uber and Lyft probably.


Nah, too much of a political fight. Most politically tenable way to increase revenue is to increase fines/fees for bonds and convictions for all offenses. Anyone who opposes is pilloried for being "soft on crime".

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Actually, DA’s and AG’s across the nation have been struggling with declining DUI-related fines and their accompanying revenues. Their solution was simple...

They’re going to try and lower the DUI threshold to .05 from .08. Utah put it in place in 2018. Many other states are moving towards it.

It has nothing to do with public safety. The facts are that arrests and vehicular deaths are down nationwide. It’s all to prop up the legal and law enforcement community that are losing business in the private and public sector in lost customers and people caught in the system.

Right. It was never about public safety. Law enforcement since the 70s or so has become all about revenue for the state.

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I thought this too.

The quoted article in the OP references the task force though. They're still around? I never ever see them posted up like they used to be.

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of I remember correctly, there was a thread on here that explained it all. There was a group of 3 guys. They headed the task force. And they billed extreme overtime doing this. Something that equates to like 80 hour weeks year round. Well they did they for a few years so their pension would pay out that much. No they are retired getting paid based on those numbers. There was a new report on this, not sure if it was Nak or not.

Another large factor is that a DUI 10+ years ago, particularly a 1st offense DUI didn't cost all that much when combined with the cost of staying in school at LSU.
Now with the price of LSU up well over 10+ years ago, families can't risk the DUI factor anymore. I see friends/parents of college kids now being extremely proactive with their kids about drinking & driving. My parents maybe told me sometime about it once. I grew up in that age of when the drinking age jumped from 18 to 21. Everything was the Wild West back then. Places didn't know the real risks or care about the age change for those within the window.
Leap to today, these kids don't know a HS life of alcohol parties like us. They DO however know all about them pills & powders.