Drunk vs. over the 0.08 Limit

Commonly people refer to it as drunk driving. Years and years ago, it used to be drunk driving. Actually, there didn’t used to be a legal limit. Over the years, they put in a legal limit. It started at a 0.15, dropped to a 0.10, and now it’s at 0.08. Currently, they’re trying to push it down even further to a 0.05. It’s no longer an issue of people drunk driving. It’s an issue of whether or not people are impaired to a point where they can’t operate a car safely. The limits change a little bit from state to state. Nationwide, 0.08 is the legal limit for most purposes, but that does not mean that someone is drunk.

Somebody can be walking fine, talking fine, and even driving fine. You would never know that that person is a 0.08. Yet, because of the legislation and the laws put in place for various political and economic reasons, this number exists. It throws a very wide net over a lot of people. It catches people and labels them as drunk drivers when, in fact, they are not.

DUIs are Common

Los Angeles is a pretty big county. We have a lot of different law enforcement agencies from local cities like Beverly Hills Police Department, Culver City, Santa Monica Police Department, all the way up to the California Highway Patrol. These agencies are all enforcing the DUI laws in Los Angeles County, which probably gets more than 30,000 DUI arrests per year.

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