Phoenix officer indicating she was needing to meet a dui quota while falsely arresting her chosen victim.
Not sure what motivation Georgia le have for boosting their stats by arresting sober drivers, but they screwed over 700 sober drivers in 2025. If it is like Tennessee(which has a quota) that figure is likely to increase as more victims come forward.
QI is the problem, all the way from the scum cop who pushes it, all the way up to the DA and even the judge who decides against the actually-sober victim. The arrogant head of TN’s State Police should have been fired, charged, and lose his pension. Then all the way down the chain (since shit supposedly rolls downhill), from the judge, to the DA, to the dirty cop who first instigated the incident. If I had my way there’d be quite a few job openings in the TSP, state/local judiciary, and the prosecuting attorney’s offices.
I’m just going to go out there on a limb and say these municipalities are way pointed statisticly in the wrong direction. Fewer People are drinking that means the likelyhood of false DUI events will go up even if there is no outside pressures on the numbers.
Now, if you don’t understand that fewer People are drinking and you are in the upper echelons of Law Enforcement, you’re simply going to insisit that those lazy donut eating bastards are all sleeping on duty. You’ll say THE NUMBERS DONT LIE !
Well I would say you just have to keep suing everyone that takes part in these shenanigans until someone wakes up and understands far fewer People drinking means fewer DUI’s.
That’s a very good point and in a few years fully autonomous vehicles will be added to the mix dropping dui incidents even lower.
It will be interesting to see what the beneficiaries of the dui industry do then.
Locally our Law Enforcement and MADD have shut down a number of local night spots and even more have slowly slipped away because fewer People are drinking.
I’m not talking just rural Gin Mills along the back roads either, entire Live Music venues and dance halls have been shut down. Living next to Ft. Hood I can assure the Military Club system is also on it’s last legs.
Now we still have way too many DUI’s, but for the most part the people you would think, young people who were twenty years ago a disproportionally large numbers on DUI’s are way down. The hardcore Alcoholics 40 and up and illeagle Aliens are the largest numbers
On the MADD mention, this elite’s 2001 arrest and conviction came via drinking at a MADD event where attendees received 2 drink tickets to demonstrate responsible drinking which is hilarious considering MADD always lobbying for lower BAC levels and 2 drinks at the time would have put most women and a lot of men over the 0.08 limit MADD had gotten passed.
“Pendleton has been convicted twice for drunken driving, in 2013 and in 2001 after leaving an event for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.”
The middle age drunk driver has been a thing here in KY for awhile which is much different than the .gov/mass media campaign claims of younger drink drivers.
Haven’t checked in awhile, but at one timr the dui arrest numbers here were lowest for the 16-25 age group, started ramping up 26-35 and stayed at roughly the same highest numbers for the 36-45, 46-55, and 56-65 brackets. If i remember correctly, the numbers only fell below the 16-25 bracket with the 76-85 bracket.
More bogus DUI’s, this time from PA.
This one might be a one off instead of meeting a quota. Still there is the issue that so far it hasn’t been handled in a manner that indicates the powers that be have a major problem with him lying which is a fairly widespread issue