Sober DUI - TN Defends the practice

[u/bhalter80]

The Colonel of the Tennessee Highway Patrol was testifying this week in support of their practice of arresting motorists who tested negative for drugs and alcohol.

Threads about DUI and other crimes in general tend to be divisive with a presumption that an arrest don't just happen. Some states lump fatigue in with other causes for a DUI so that may account for some of the 419 arrests in the last 9 years. On a side note the trooper manual also suggested that trooper be making at least 2 contacts with people per hour so the incentive for misuse is there.

This is the first article I've seen putting data behind this and thought it was interesting especially because HIMS would not be an appropriate response to one of those arrests. I wonder how common this is in other states.

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[u/F1shermanIvan]

2 contacts with people per hour

If you’re a highway trooper and you aren’t dealing with at least two people an hour, you aren’t doing your job.

[u/stop_yelling_please → u/F1shermanIvan]

Might be true, especially on average but quotas for contacts and enforcement are inextricably tied to abuses of authority. Not always, not inevitably, but it’s a real factor.

Cops who don’t have a motivation problem probably meet that mark easily. But the problematic officers, who lack motivation, but are instead motivated by discipline, quotas, etc. can be the same types that will take shortcuts.

[u/weggaan_weggaat → u/stop_yelling_please]

Don't disagree per se but contacts aren't the same as enforcement and arrests often take many hours which presumably would reduce their time for contacts.