DUI Crackdown or Highway Patrol Fundraiser?
I've been following the ongoing "DUI Crackdown" campaign, also known as [“Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.”] with recent posts here and here. Today the Clarion Ledger reveals that in Mississippi, 4,967 tickets have been issued in the first 3 days of the campaign. Guess how many were for DUI? Just 86 - less than two percent of the total tickets issued. The campaign is being promoted as a "DUI Crackdown" but is in reality a law enforcement fundraiser. If the promoters titled it a "campaign to issue lots of tickets, less than two percent being DUI tickets" the law-abiding public wouldn't swallow the idea so easily.
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