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Breathalyzer Refusal – It’s Your (worthless) Right!

When you are suspected of drunk driving and the officer wants to give you a breathalyzer test, that officer will likely tell you that you have a right to refuse the test. Sounds great, doesn’t it? If you refuse, because you have a ‘right’ to, then there’s no evidence, right?

Well, a breathalyzer test [...]

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New Drunk Driving Laws Will Create Jobs

Many states are adopting new laws against drunk drivers that involve putting an ignition interlock system on the offender’s car.

An ignition interlock is essentially a breathalyzer wired into your car’s ignition system.  A clean breath test is required to start the car and randomly occurring retests ensure the person who started the car is the [...]

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Tipping Off the Cops Revisited

In our Blog posting, “The Supreme Court Says No Fair Tipping Off the Cops” from October 24 last year, we were swayed by news articles we read online and compelled to speak up.  Since then, an important clarification has been issued in an article at PoliceMag.com entitled, “Beware of False Headlines“. 

If you have read our [...]

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Supreme Court Says No Fair Tipping Off the Cops!

When you see an impaired driver swerving on the road, the right thing to do is to report it so that they are stopped before anything tragic happens.  That’s what most of us believe and indeed is what we at DrinkingAndDriving.Org encourage.  We even make fun of people who don’t report drunk drivers.

So we were surprised [...]

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MADD and Century Council Should Take Advice From Rodney King!

the sum of the parts adding up greater than the whole

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