ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Police in Abbotsford, B.C., say a man who has been convicted of drunk driving 21 times could hold a Canadian record. Abbotsford police say officers were called to the scene o...
It’s crazy the lengths we as a society will go to to protect the criminally dangerous from the consequences of their actions… if they were driving.
If someone is knowingly being a deadly menace to society and has already proven that they cannot and will not stop themselves after being criminally sentenced, then as a society we should take any steps necessary to make them stop, up to and including incarceration. This shouldn’t be a hot take.
Not for DUI, for recidivism and driving drunk against court orders. At this point it’s not a mistake, it’s a pattern. A deadly dangerous one. It’s not about punishment, but about public safety.
Of course step 1 should be to remove access to cars for this person. Impound it, crush it, fine whoever let an unlicensed driver drive their car, whatever.
But if the courts are impotent at enforcing driving suspensions against such a dangerous driver, what else is there to do besides jail? Throw our hands in the air and wait for them to drunk-drive their way through a pack of schoolchildren so we have an excuse to arrest them?
That would ignore decades of study that shows that just being tough on crime doesn’t lower it… What these people need is help, you don’t get caught DUI 20+ times because you’re life is going well.
Then put them in goddamn jail?
It’s crazy the lengths we as a society will go to to protect the criminally dangerous from the consequences of their actions… if they were driving.
If someone is knowingly being a deadly menace to society and has already proven that they cannot and will not stop themselves after being criminally sentenced, then as a society we should take any steps necessary to make them stop, up to and including incarceration. This shouldn’t be a hot take.
Want to put them in jail for life for DUI when much worse crimes don’t get that kind of treatment? 🤔
Not for DUI, for recidivism and driving drunk against court orders. At this point it’s not a mistake, it’s a pattern. A deadly dangerous one. It’s not about punishment, but about public safety.
Of course step 1 should be to remove access to cars for this person. Impound it, crush it, fine whoever let an unlicensed driver drive their car, whatever.
But if the courts are impotent at enforcing driving suspensions against such a dangerous driver, what else is there to do besides jail? Throw our hands in the air and wait for them to drunk-drive their way through a pack of schoolchildren so we have an excuse to arrest them?
That would ignore decades of study that shows that just being tough on crime doesn’t lower it… What these people need is help, you don’t get caught DUI 20+ times because you’re life is going well.
Well then do that! Do fucking something!
Sitting on our hands and doing nothing also is not the answer.
Jail should include that rehabilitation. I don’t care just don’t leave them to reoffend over and fucking over!