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Originally Posted by rowan
That cop showed a little too much discretion IMHO.
First stop (if there really had to be two incidents) should have been a warning and advice to park the car and take a taxi home.
Second stop should have been an arrest.
Around here you would have lost your licence and had your car impounded, no questions asked...
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Yep same here. Where I live they don't fuck around. If you smell like booze or act like you have been drinking they give the test and arrest you if you fail. Depending on what you blow they may or may not tow the car. I know a lot of cars get impounded, but sometimes they will let you call someone to go get the car.
The reason is simple. If that guy lets you go (which you claim he did not once but twice) and you drive down the road and hit someone and hurt or kill them, that cop could get sued for not taking you off the street. This happened in a small town near where I live about 10 years ago. A cop pulled a guy over. The guy had girl in the car and was drunk. He gets out and talks to the cop, tells him that he met this chick at the bar and is taking her home to bang her. The cop decides to give the guy a break so he can get laid and lets him go. Ten minutes later the guy crossed the center line and hit an oncoming car head on. He killed the driver of that car and seriously injured the other passenger. The drunk guy was hurt pretty bad, but made a full recovery and the girl that was with him died.
The families of those hurt and killed in the accident found out about the stop and sued the police department that the guy worked for. They ended up settling out of court because they didn't want a parade of ugly pictures and testimony about what had happened. They immediately changed their department policy that anyone who even hints of DUI gets a test.