OWI Task Force Nets But 1 Arrest in 26 Tosa Stops
In all, a metro-wide sweep the night before Thanksgiving resulted in only 16 drunken driving arrests in 214 stops after it was heavily publicized in advance.
A program to catch drunken drivers may have done the world one better, in the opinion of local law enforcement agencies. With plenty of advance notice that a dedicated task force of officers would be on the sharp lookout, only a small percentage of traffic stops Wednesday night and into Thursday morning yielded OWI arrests. Police officers would like to believe that in part, that was because of the highly publicized effort to make drivers aware they were being watched – and that they behaved better as a result. Wauwatosa fielded the largest contingent of tasked officers of any metro community, with seven patrols mainly looking for intoxicated drivers. But in 26 stops with some suspicion of drinking drivers, only one arrest was made, of a…
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Ray Ray Johnson
5:26 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Spoken like one of the true brainwashed sheep lining up to surrender your freedom under the guise of protection and safety. Why not allow the police to go door to door looking for contrabnd? Why not let the police select a few certain days of the year when they can sweep your home and the homes on your block for presciption pills that don't belong to you, sales reciepts for guns you own, … more ›