The Ignition Interlock Hoax
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in DUI/DWI | 5 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President MADD and its bloated stepmother, NHTSA, have been pushing for mandated ignition interlock devices (IIDs), preferably in all vehicles, but they know from experience these things have to be done in an incremental fashion, or there ...
MADD Pushes To Make DUI Violations A Felony
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in DUI/DWI | 13 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President MADD’s current excuse for existing is to make DUI violations a felony, the most serious of criminal convictions. A felon, along with going to prison, loses the right to vote, the right to possess firearms, any ...
Vengeance, Bad Data Make For Terrible DUI/DWI Policy
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 1 Comment »By James Baxter, NMA President This editorial by James Baxter is a response to a five part series on drunk driving in Wisconsin that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in October. The Journel-Sentinel series on “excessive drinking,” primarily related to drunk driving, ...
A Blueprint For Reasonable Drunk Driving Laws
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 44 Comments »As a followup to last week's post on the possibility of mandatory breathalyzers in every vehicle, we thought it would be worth going over the organization's stance on DUI/DWI laws: The NMA supports drinking and driving regulations based on reasonable standards ...
Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 88 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist If you're not a convicted drunk driver, should you still be required to have an in-car breathalyzer fitted (at your expense, 'natch) to your next new vehicle? Apparently, some automakers -- including GM and Toyota -- ...
Drinking Improves Highway Safety (Apparently)
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 11 Comments »By Jim Baxter, NMA President A new federal study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (part of the US Dept. of Health and Human services) just confirmed that states with the highest levels of self-reported drinking and ...
Breath-Alcohol Analysis: How Reliable Is It?
Friday, December 21st, 2007 Posted in DUI/DWI | 15 Comments »By Gerald D. Simpson, Ph.D. In a 1983 law review article, Stephen G. Thompson observed the following: "Modern criminal justice is premised upon the requirement that a criminal defendant be proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before punishment can be meted out. ...
What Everyone Should Know About The Drunk Driving Problem
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in DUI/DWI | 52 Comments »We frequently hear that drunk drivers "cause 50% of all highway fatalities." This falls into the category of "tell a big enough lie long enough and loud enough and people will believe it." The truth is closer ...
The 10 Biggest Injustices Against Motorists In October
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Corruption, DUI/DWI, Motorist Privacy, Speed Traps, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets | 29 Comments »It has been a rough month for drivers across the country. Abuses of power continue to run rampant while the public remains surprisingly apathetic. We've put together a list of the ten biggest injustices against motorists this month in ...
It’s Just A Decimal Point: The Dirty Secret Behind Breathalyzers
Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Corruption, DUI/DWI | 396 Comments »In 1990, the New Jersey courts declared that the science was settled, the debate was over: breath analysis is a reliable and accurate means by which to determine blood alcohol content (BAC). This proclamation is known as the “Downie ...
