Miami Beach Cops Arresting People for DUI a Lot Less, but Not Because People Are Drunk Driving Less

In 2009, Miami Beach police arrested jut fewer than 1,300 people for DUI. Last year, only a mere 492 people and this year they are only projected to arrest about 442 people.

Sadly this isn’t because Miami has been cracking down on drunk driving but because, according to the Miami Herald, “MBPD reorganized patrol zones, and officers now forgo actively enforcing DUI laws in order to respond to other crimes.” In other words, they have better things to do. Although arrests there and in other parts of the county have gone down, the number of car crashes has remained the same.

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