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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former prosecutor here and again, this is not a red state blue state issue as there are plenty of red states that allow lenient sentencing on DUI and many folks who are habitual drunk drivers are still out in the world and plenty of them don’t balk at driving without a license.

It’s the vehicular homicide that finally gets them into prison, not the multiple DUIs over decades.

America continues to have a bipartisan fraught relationship with alcohol and DUI. If we doled out heavy prison sentences to repeat DUI offenders, we’d never stop building prisons. We save the harsh sentences for when they kill someone else and that happens red states and blue states alike, I’ve practiced in both I’ve seen the sentencing regimes up close.[/quote]
What about shaming? Post their mugshots in public places.[/quote]

When I lived in rural Maine the local paper published the court convictions docket every week including all crimes, and once upon a time people paid attention to such things.

Generally the criminal convictions are a matter of public record but people have to be interested in looking it up - this is another way in which losing local news outlets including local papers has changed the social dynamic.

Because yes we should all shame the drunk drivers and wife beaters around us, they are actual criminals whose crimes are not victimless.[/quote]

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