re: What is the OT's opinion of MADD?

It's a matter of perspective.

If you haven't lost a child to a drunk driver, you might think they're being a bit silly.

If you have lost a child to a drunk driver, you have some idea of the indescribable pain of losing one in an instant.

Pray to remain in the first group.

It's a money grab.

What is invoked with your DWI work?

For a guy that delivers pizzas you sure do seem to know a lot about search and seizure laws.

they don't support prohibition.

frick those bitches. I'm in DAMM. Drunks against Mad Mothers.

I'd be willing to bet that the majority of them do, or at least the ones who aren't making gobs of money off of drinking fines.

They have annual functions where they pay officers for the most DWI arrests. Not convictions, arrests

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The founding president of MADD, Candy Lightner, left in disgust from the organization that she herself created because of its change in goals. "It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I ever wanted or envisioned," she says. "I didn't start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving." 5 Ms. Lightner has emphasized the importance of distinguishing between alcohol and drinking on one hand and drunk driving on the other. 6

Ms. Lightner has apparently put her finger on the problem when she says that if MADD really wants to save lives, it will go after the real problem drivers. 7 Instead, it has become temperance-oriented.

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I think it's good and bad.

Good that they use guilt to disuade people from driving drunk; but bad because it's a group determined to strip civil rights and amendments from an American citizen.

Just to let you guys know, the Intoxilyzer 9000 went through testing recently and had a failure rate of over 30%.

They started out with good intentions, but have really run amok nowadays.