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Originally Posted by Zarley
Can you link a study detailing the effectiveness of mandatory screening versus the existing procedure? I can’t seem to find anything of substance on the topic.
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Here's a link to a PDF of the Criminal Law Quarterly, which has some references on the topic:
http://www.madd.ca/english/research/...20of%20RBT.pdf
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It is widely accepted that well-publicized programs involving both organized and mobile RBT with high testing levels increase the perceived and actual risk of apprehension, and thereby achieve sharp, sustained reductions in impaired driving crashes. (9)
(9) Individual studies, research reviews and meta-analyses have consistently found that these programs achieve significant and sustain reductions in impaired driving deaths and injuries. See generally C. Peek-Asa “The Effects of Random Alcohol Screening in Reducing Motor Vehicle Crashes” (1998); R. Shults et al., “Reviews of Evidence Regarding Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving” (2001); World Health Organization (WHO), World Report on Traffic Injury Prevention: Summary (Geneva: WHO, 2004);
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The footnote goes on, but there are a lot of studies related to it. They pretty much conclusively show that mandatory screening (RBT) effectively reduces drunk driving, crashes related to impairment, and deaths related to impairment across the board.