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Originally Posted by Ne7en
Wouldn't it be reasonable to think that people with higher BAC are a greater risk to public
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Individually yes, but as I said above it depends on the total # of drivers in each range as well.
It makes no sense to chase 10 really dangerous drivers over 100 drivers that are only half as dangerous. (assuming equal resource utilization and effictiveness)
The PDF you provided speaks to that though, and it would seem that the risk from high impairment is so much higher that it overcomes the difference in size of the groups.
Though something is bothering me about how I'm looking at the numbers, like I'm missing something, so I'll have to think about it a bit more.
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Originally Posted by Ne7en
Also a repeat offender as compared to a smaller woman who might have had a drink at dinner and is nearing that .05 mark?
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Repeat offenders are a whole different thing and I totally agree that they should be sqashed hard.
(Then again I'm in favour of either a 0.05 or zero tolerance for alcohol and driving)