THE REALITY OF MADD and LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS

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MADD's real agenda is apparent.  The cause is a worthy one, no one condones drunk driving.  But the laws should not reach the level of unfairness that they are at especially with MADD lobbying lies to politicians.  They provide incorrect statistics to achieve their agenda.  Politicians have created a very lucrative and powerful industry w/ all of the current extreme DUI laws relating to low BAC's.

Again, no one is for drunk driving.  It's just wrong to punish someone to the extreme levels that the current laws mandate for an act that does not cause any public hazard.  The real statistics are no where near what MADD makes it out to be.  They lie to achieve the political action that they want.  It is a shame that they have lost loved ones but blaming innocent people is hardly the answer to anything.  It's like blaming anyone who has ever carried a gun for a killing that involved a gun.  How much sense does that make? 

The real statistics are:

Since 1996 the percentage of motor vehicle fatalities involving alcohol with a BAC of 0.10% or less has steadily fallen.  And in 1996 that percentage was 8.9%, let us repeat that; that means that 91.1% of all fatal motor vehicle accidents involved people with NO MEASURABLE BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL.  And that percentage has steadily decreased since 1996!!  Why is the BAC level 0.08?  A level that has statistically been proven to cause less fatal crashes than no alcohol at all!  It's because of MADD's lobbying, not because it curbs drunk driving or saves any lives.

MADD also lobbied to define the term alcohol related accident.  The federal government, as a direct result of MADD lobbying, now classifies an alcohol related accident as one that involves any alcohol in ANY person involved in the accident regardless of who causes the accident.  This includes pedestrians, witnesses, etc...  So a sober person could crash and hit another car and that car could have a passenger with some measurable amount of alcohol in their system and then it is considered an alcohol related accident for statistical purposes. 

These are just the tip of the iceberg and it only gets worse.  MADD as an organization has their own agenda and its a shame that their agenda involves criminalizing innocent people.