Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Artifact 9

NMA's Position on Drunk Driving. 2007. 21 Mar. 2007. http://www.motorists.com/issues/dwi/nma_dwi_position.html.

The NMA believes that some strategies the police use to find drunk drivers should not be used because they believe it violates search and seizure standards.

"We oppose drunk-driving roadblocks on the grounds that they violate protection from warrantless search and seizure, and fail to meet probable cause standards. They have not been shown to be effective at deterring impaired driving"(1).

  1. Does the NMA oppose all standards for finding drunk drivers?
  2. If so, how do they feel on the severity of the punishment?