Cops Drink n Drive All The Time. So Leave Me Alone.

I think a post this asinine probably belongs upstairs, no?

New here. I thought off topic forums were for off topic threads? I felt safe after seeing a thread survey of usernames for a date site.

Plus what is upstairs and downstairs? I'm new so I honestly don't know.

would that be slide like into some family's car and kill their children? Your other post was fine but this one is definitely off the rails. Got to call them like I see them.

and yes - it is their duty. If they do it the answer is to prosecute them too not let them and others off because some officers do.

Its fine down here though. As we learned recently upstairs at times can have a lot more sense than down stairs (probably most of the time)

Sigh.

First, you can't "issue" someone a DUI unless you're authorized to do so. So there goes your private agency idea.

Second, it's not automatically illegal to have a drink in a bar (or anywhere else) and get in your car and drive afterwards. (If the officer is still on duty that's another story). The illegal part is if you've drank enough to put your blood alcohol concentration at or above the legal limit, which is 0.08 in all 50 states here in the U.S. (That limit is 0.04 for commercial drivers.)

How much alcohol it takes someone to reach that limit varies from one person to the next, depending on a variety of factors including body weight, the amount of time over which the alcohol was consumed, and several other factors.

So, if an off-duty cop consumes alcohol in a bar and drives away, that doesn't automatically mean he or she deserves a DUI. (You would know that if you'd bothered to check your facts before spouting off from your high horse...) Nor does it automatically mean the cop is a hypocrite.

Lastly, why should you or anyone whose BAC is above the legal limit when driving be allowed to slide?? If your driving is impaired by alcohol you are endangering innocent people. If you can't be responsible with regards to your alcohol consumption, that's on you. Don't blame the laws or the officers who enforce them.

Also let's not forget how many times the cops did a rolling stop or turned on sirens just to run the red light and then turn them off.

But he will ticket you for those as well. But hey. He's a cop. He's above the law. Right.

So, a cop is seen coming out of a bar, therefore he/she must be drunk.

What if they only had one drink?

What if they were drinking coke, orange juice, or water (to name three different types of drink I've had in bars)?

I forget....how many is that????

Apparently you want to police the police. OK - go for it.

I'm not saying that it's okay to drink and drive. I'm just saying that I would love to know if the cops that enforce the dui laws actually do the same things themselves without punishment.

But I guess if all the dui off duty cops were actually busted; Then there would be no one to drive the patrol cars.

So in my opinion. This is why they let these cops slide. And if you don't think that this happens all the time. Then you may be very gullible to how law enforcement protects their own.

You say you want to know IF cops do the same thing without punishment....but then you seem to go in the belief they do.

Does it ever happen? Probably - they are human after all. I doubt it's a common thing and don't know why you think it is.

Who are "they" - and where are "they" - and where are the numbers documented that you say "this happens all the time"??