Quote Originally Posted by MikeOKC View Post
You write that as if it's a good thing. Try losing a very close family member (as I have) to a drunk driver screaming through a stop sign. Should the cops have stopped him a mile back before this happened and just poured out his booze and let him go? You're a piece of work, Vail.
The point is, that is when the police actually knew who you were. More than likely they lived in the neighborhood themselves and knew the families of the people they stopped. They were able to get better results by handling things with the family instead of the courts.