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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I filled it out, but what a waste of time.

This wasn't a survey. [b]It's prep work for taking money out of the police department and allocating it to other, or soon-to-be-created, departments. 
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Get ready for the Montgomery County Violence Interrupter Unit![/quote]

I'm all for it. We don't need armed police officers to fill out crash reports or issue tickets to commercial trucks parked on residential streets.[/quote]

And what about drunk drivers, wife beaters, and murderers? Should a social worker handle that too?[/quote]

I think that most people are capable of understanding that Agency X is best suited to handle Problems A and B, while Agency Y is better suited to handle Problems C and D. In fact that's basically the structure of survey.

So, should armed police officers handle homicide? In my opinion, yes.

Should armed police officers handle domestic violence? In my opinion, not as the lead agency; they're not very good at it.

Should armed police officers handle drunk driving? In my opinion, not routinely; there needs to be more automated enforcement, and there need to be stricter requirements with more enforcement for establishments that serve alcohol.[/quote]

How do you automate enforcement of impaired driving? [/quote]
It was a good start when the requirement went into effect for mandatory ignition interlocks after the first DUI. Lots more speed cameras and red-light cameras would also help, with consequences for the owners of vehicles that get over a certain number of citations in a given period of time. Prevention of impaired driving would obviously help as well.

What do you think the chances are of an impaired driver getting pulled over on any given impaired-driving trip? They've got to be quite low, which means the current system isn't working well anyway. Not to mention that pulling drivers over is dangerous for the police officers.[/quote]

Do you know that most drunk drivers actually drive really slowly?  So your speed camera idea is not a winner.[/quote]

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