Tucson Citizen DUI Article

The series of DUI articles in the Tucson Citizen are enough to make the most simpleminded person say "WTF!" There are so many liberties taken, and so many factual inconsistencies, that it leaves one to wonder how a newspaper can tolerate such rubbish. And then the answer dawned on me… the public has been so polarized against people suspected of drunk driving that it really doesn't matter what the facts are, as long as the person gets convicted of their DUI. The idiots who think they are making the community safer by convicting people of DUI need to recheck their facts. Until we, as a community, ease up on the vengeance and go heavier on the treatment, DUIs and drunk driving will continue. So why doesn't our system focus on the problem rather than simply flogging the person who needs help, and blaming the sleazy DUI lawyers when police and prosecutors fail to do their job, or when innocent people are justly acquitted? It's because the State is making a hell of a lot of money off of DUIs… probably more than the "money grubbing" attorneys such as those who give quotes to biased reporters to see their own names in print and possibly gain more suckers (I mean clients) by feeding the public misinformation to bolster their ego or practice and at the same time creating a false impression that makes it harder for good, honest, defense attorneys to save their clients who are actually innocent.