Record DUI arrests for Pennsylvania in 2008…
Apr 26th, 2009 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: Blogs, DUI-DWI-DAI (Drunk Driving)In April 2009, Pennsylvania State Police announced that in 2008 PA state troopers carried out more than 16,000 arrests for driving under the influence (DUI). This is a new record for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and marks a 3% increase in the number of PA DUI arrests made in 2007.
State police officials cite education, training, and the practicing of targeted enforcement as reasons for this unprecedented success in taking those driving under the influence off of Pennsylvania’s roadways.
In addition to identifying those who are driving drunk, the PA State Police are also administering more evaluations in order to single out drivers may be driving under the influence of illegal or prescription drugs.
More good news is that the number of alcohol-related car accidents in Pennsylvania fell by 3% in 2008, and of those PA car accidents, fatal car accident were down 9%.
Did the PA State Police do a better job at identifying and arresting PA DUI suspects or are there more people driving under the influence (DUI) on Pennsylvania roads in 2008?
What do you think?
I think that troopers are getting much more skilled at finding drivers who might have had only a few drinks. It is easy to spot someone who has had many drinks but to find the ones that have had only a few is the trick for them.
i think the stats presented are incomplete. we would need to know the number of those convicted of dui from 2008 arrests, compared to those convicted from 2007 arrests, …. and it could be we dont have those stats because their are cases still pending from 2007 and 2008 dui arrests. however, onbce all the cases are done, will we get get the stats? i dont think so, …. that information will never be put together and presented, .. either each town will say it is too much work, or the penn supreme court just will never mandate it, … whatever the case, we will never get those stats, ….. i no the nj supreme court justices viewed getting dui stats put together from the 567 nj municipalities would be an impossible task, or so they claimed, in the april 2007 oral hearing before then in state v chun, …. so they just went on estimates and guesses, … lol,
now, what is interesting is that dui accidents and fatalities went down, when arrests went up, … umm, correlqation, too eary to tell, i say, not enough stats, …..
there is a much bigger picture hear, … that the 16,000 arrests are a drop in the bucket of actual times people drive at 0,08% bac, …. i would even say 16,000 times in a state like penn is probablyt a daily true count, … probably more than 16,000 peoplew in penn could drive at 0,08% bac in any given day, ….
correlation, …. you need a phd in math and game theory to figure this one out.
let us look at us supreme court justice scelia, who wrote a b lazing minority opinion on the subject, and this man may be the smartest law man we have in the us, .. he studied all the stats the feds had, and determined that dui is not dangerous ,…..he said it is more dangerous to walk across a street, from the statistics, …… i guess it is all debateable, .. dui is a subject no one really wants to tackle in academia, in phd math programs at princeton, …. but believe me, ….. it would be inbteresting to find out what complex game theory equations would comre up with about 0,08% bac.