Originally posted by eskimo2
Rich46yo,
I can see giving a cop, or anyone, a break when it’s just mild speeding with the traffic kind of a thing. But do you always give a cop a break no matter what? What if you pulled a guy over who was weaving all over the road, reeked of alcohol and who could hardly stand up – but was a cop? Would you give that guy a break just because he was a cop? Tell me that you see that there is a certain point where laws apply to cops as well as civilians?
Look I can only speak from my own experience. Ive been in this for almost 25 years, add 4 as an MP, and I probably went the first 15 years without ever writing a DUI. And thats working midnights. In the dreadful housing projects I ratted around in DUIs we rent a very high priority. It was a different time back then anyways and there wasnt much pressure to write them. The Bosses were thrilled if you just showed up to work.
Now I understand theres a lot of social pressure on driving drunk. And that's probably a good thing, having picked up enough pieces of bodies on roads. I quit years ago thank God.
The short answer to your question is no. I wouldnt write him. I'd take his keys away and would not let him back in the car. I might even talk with his Boss and try and get him help, "Ive done that a few times". I'd give him a ride home too. On the plus side unless you ran into someone ,or were just blind drunk, the odds of me writing you are about 0 too.
But I come from a different time with different codes. You should have seen these olds guys when I first came on.
The worse thing they can do to me is force me to retire, and then I'll just play AH all day long. I haven't worked Mids for awhiles thankfully. I did get tired of all the drunks.