Colorado DU repeat offenders
So 33.33% of all Colorado DUI arrests are of people who have been down this road before. That's a staggering number when you think that for Colorado alone, over 10,000 people with previous DUIs were arrested. Here's an article that goes over those stats:
1 In 3 DUI Arrests Repeat Offenders - cbs4denver.com: "A Denver Post analysis has found that about 10,000 drunken drivers arrested in Colorado each year are repeat offenders.
Police arrest roughly 31,000 drunken drivers a year, so about one in three has at least one previous DUI.
The Post examined records of arrests made from 2005 to 2007.
From 2005 to 2007, an average of 31,011 suspected drunken drivers were arrested each year in Colorado, according to statistics from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
An average of 10,835 drunken drivers each year had at least one prior DUI arrest, according to Division of Behavioral Health data from probation-department evaluations of drivers facing DUI charges.
Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey says getting drunken drivers off the road for good is a constant struggle."
Learn more about Colorado DUI law and process.
So what's the solution? I would be interested to know how many people each year arrested for DUI in Colorado had suspended licenses for prior DUIs? Obviously, the number will be less than the total number of people arrested who had at least one prior, but how much less? How many of those arrested with priors were supposed to have ignition interlock devices on their vehicles but didn't? How many of those people did jail time? How many did substantial jail or prison time?
If we look at all of the statistics, I bet you that the only possible conclusion is that nothing except treatment works, and even treatment is ineffective.
So there's our civil liberties. There's the constitution. And then there's the sobering statistics in the quote above.
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