In our best year, 1983, 1.9 million drivers were arrested for driving while impaired (DWI) in the United States. This number represented approximately 1 percent of the Nation’s total licensed drivers.
This was a significant increase over the 197Os, when only about one-half of 1 percent of licensed drivers were arrested for DWI each year.
Still, it [...]

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According to CHP, the number of arrests for DUI in the Bay Area from 6PM Wednesday, December 31 2008 to 6AM Thursday January 1, 2009 is double the number from the same period last year.  This year there were 84 Drunk Driving arrests in the San Francisco Bay Area, compared to 41 Drunk Driving arrests [...]

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As we enter the new year CHP and local police forces have been setting up sobriety checkpoints all over the Bay Area.  Most DUI arrests at checkpoints go unchallenged in Court.  This lack of challenge to these warrantless stops has resulted in officers going beyond what the courts have authorized them to do at checkpoints. 
 On two recent [...]

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