Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Danny was drinking? Where's the BAC test?

We have made thousands of traffic stops and most are not impaired, yet we then have the opportunity to check for other violations. Deputies and Officers check for a
  • valid Driver’s License
  • current vehicle registration
  • mandatory car insurance 
  • warrant for their arrest
 Arizona has among the highest number of uninsured vehicles, which is why our insurance costs are so expensive and another reason why many vehicles flee the scene of a car wreck. Many have arrested many because of these offenses and we have towed their cars and issued hundreds of additional traffic citations. All of this zero tolerance enforcement keeps our roads, streets and highways safer for all of our Pinal families.

If I were going to be a lawyer, I'd try to be like Mark...

The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse

Mark Bennett

Try this:

Stand up. Raise one foot off the ground. Now shift your weight forward. Don’t set your raised foot down. What happens?

You fall down.

But if you do the same thing and set the raised foot down to stop your fall, you take a step. Raise the other foot off the ground, shift your weight forward, and set your raised foot down to catch you. String a series of these events together, and you’re moving across the ground.

Walking....

(The rest is here: The Four Most Powerful Words in the Criminal Courthouse)