Reading bizarre NPIC position letters on common sense California legislation is kind of my full-time job, but I don't think I've ever seen one this strange. Enforcing DUI law is a form of "racialized wealth extraction"...?
“Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th.” calmatters.org/investigation/…
"...drivers face even more burdensome costs of DUI class fees, high cost-insurance premiums..." What is the point of insurance if not to force people to internalize the risks? California already mandates that auto insurers provide subsidized insurance for repeat DUI offenders!
I'm cross-posting from the slightly less insane microblogging platform.
As with disparate impact arguments against safety cameras and traffic enforcement generally, making a disparate impact argument against DUI enforcement is absurd—what about the Black and Hispanic pedestrians and bicyclists disproportionally killed by drunk drivers?
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