After trying ignition interlocks, policy makers in New Mexico have come to the right conclusion about repeat drink drivers: The focus should be on their alcohol use rather than just their driving. This approach has the twin virtues of allowing people to drive so that they can work and removing the vector of other public [...]
Posts Tagged ‘24/7 Sobriety’
November 8th, 2012
Mandatory sobriety programs have greatly reduced drunk driving deaths
October 1st, 2012
The two most-commonly proposed policy solutions for drug-fueled crime are alike only in being wrong. The hard-edged approach, whether borne of anger, fear or frustration, is to bang up as many intoxicated offenders as possible. Politicians who adopt this stance rarely suffer at the ballot box, but in policy terms they’re on a hiding to [...]
November 2nd, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
Heraclitus said that no one can step twice into the same river. By the same token, it isn’t really possible to do the same program in two different places.










