Edhat Staff
Source: California Highway Patrol
Your Santa Barbara CHP held a DUI Checkpoint [Friday] night in Santa Barbara.
We made 7 arrest, 6 for DUI and 1 for a stolen vehicle. If you’re going to drink alcohol please be responsible. There are many ways to get home safe. Make an effective plan such as a designated driver, taxi, or stay at a hotel and use their shuttle.
You can still have fun and limit the amount of alcohol you drink. When you drink and drive you endanger yourself and others. If you witness a DUI driver call 911 and report it!
DUI penalties are a joke.
I agree the penalties aren’t steep enough. How do I know? Because people still drink and drive.
That’s great that they caught that many inebriated people and got them off the road. That’s not so great that there are actually that many to be caught on a non-holiday Friday during the checkpoint location and time window in a city the size of ours. How horribly ironic it would be for one of our numerous drunk drivers to careen into the path of one of the legion of uber and/or lyft drivers on the way home. Stay safe out there uber and lyft drivers.
As the colleges come back into session there will be more dui drivers. I think these should be set up more frequently and also in more than 1 place per night, and not advertised. Get em!
YETI – it would not be uncommon for a first time DUI offender to receive probation, a
The fact that people still drink and drive is not proof of the insufficiency of the penalty in any logical analysis. The idea that DUI is a premeditated crime is part of this fallacy. And even when a person intends to go out to drink and not drive home if intoxicated the very fact of that intoxication compromises this intent. On the other hand, we could institute capital punishment for DUI in an attempt to frighten society into compliance. But I would bet there would soon be people on Death Row for DUI. Realistic solutions involve more than punishment. Maybe bars should be required to offer shuttle rides? Maybe car ignitions should be alcohol sensitive? Maybe we will soon have auto drive technology and the issue will me mooted?
The police are required to announce time and place of these stops to comply with the Supreme Court’s compromise on the charge that such detentions constitute violation of the 4th Amendment. Maybe we could have a constitutional change to exempt police roadblocks at their discretion? Or maybe just a new Trump Supreme Court Justice?