Driving drunk can not only possibly ruin, if not end, your life; it could potentially end someone else’s life. Drinking and driving is a serious public safety dilemma. In the year 2002 alone there were approximately 1.5 million arrests made that dealt with alcohol-impaired driving. Also, in 2002 there was an estimated 258 thousand injuries and 17,419 deaths due to alcohol-related crashes. About every three out of ten americans will be impacted by a collision related to alcohol in their lifetime. These statistics were created by the offender’s skewed view of law enforcement, the government not being able to deter the actions of these individuals and by those who have serious alcohol related problems. Despite already having been arrested and convicted two to three times, there are still some offenders that feel as if their chances of being arrested after yet another DUI stop and/or getting convicted again are somewhat likely to very unlikely. DUI offenders with a significant history of serious drinking and driving problems, have been found to posses a higher impulse to drink and drive. And have also been found to have a skewed view of law enforcement legitimacy; specifically in the cases regarding certainty of arrest, certainty of conviction, open container laws, and the usage of sobriety …show more content…
But yet there are individuals who believe that the open container laws are in fact appropriate, also there are those who feel that if the usage of sobriety checkpoints increased then that would be associated with lower the tendencies that people have to drink and drive. Offenders are more than likely to have a greater tendency to drink and drive simply because of their lack of ability to recognize the authority and decency of an open container