Friday, May 16, 2014

One more time

A few weeks ago, I blogged about a 29 year old driver who was arrested for driving while his license was suspended. At the time, he already had 21 prior convictions for driving while suspended. Well, he's still at it. Around 2:30 AM yesterday morning, he was spotted by an officer who recognized him from the prior arrest on April 18, and popped him again. He also had two arrest warrants for failure to appear in relation to two other suspended driving cases in Douglas County.


11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure who the slow learner is, here--the driver or law enforcement. The guy obviously has no respect for our laws, so why should we have respect for his rights? Lock that ****** up and throw away the key would be my solution. Or drop him off the Mo. river bridge.

Tom Casady said...

11:16,
Law enforcement? The police decide when to put someone in jail, but have no role on determining how long he or stays there.

Anonymous said...

You're right, Tom--my apologies. But there has to be a better way.

Steve said...

Stop sticks with spikes long enough to puncture the carotid artery of the driver?

Anonymous said...

It comes down to money and overcrowding the jail. No one wants to fork out more tax money but they complain that people who commit crimes don't get locked up long enough. If you want more cop, bigger jails, better services, faster response times etc etc, you have to be willing to pay a price.

Steve said...

Anon 7:21

People keep saying "no one wants to fork out more tax money", but what makes you think so? I'm willing, and I know a lot of people would rather see money spent on jails so we can people like the one in this example off the streets, than seeing it spent on stupid things like dedicated bike paths downtown.

Tom Casady said...

I agree with 1:03--there has to be a better way. I have two in mind: first, take the car away--every time, if the person has two or more prior convictions. Second, I think we could really help some people get back on track to a clean license, a registered vehicle, and insurance. Once you're on this escalator, it's very, very difficult to get off. I've seen people do it, though, particularly during the time I served on the Taxi License Appeal Board.

If this guy continues to drive, he will inevitably continue to get arrested, fined, and suspended for even more time. What he needs is a bicycle, and the self-control to use that and the bus exclusively for one full year, saving up enough money to pay the reinstatement fee, buy a cheap car, and pay for a low-budget liability policy. I could teach him the path, if he could pull himself up by the bootstraps.

Did you read this article in last weekend's newspaper about the young woman from Sudan who worked her tail off for several years so she could adopt her orphaned brothers and bring them to America? If our chronic suspended driver put forth 2% of that effort....

Anonymous said...

"Stop sticks with spikes long enough to puncture the carotid artery of the driver?"

Back to your idea of execution as a summary penalty for DUS? So, if they damage property we draw and quarter them, and if they injure someone, we burn them alive I suppose.

Anonymous said...

Some in-transit trivia questions:

1. What are the chances that the driver of a vehicle with in-transits that expired over a month ago (having been issued over two months ago) has either a suspended OL, outstanding warrants, no liability insurance - or all of the above?

2. Is the small number written on the left hand side of the IT paper, below the date unique to the buyer, or is it just a number assigned to the dealer?

Tom Casady said...

2:06,

1. I suspect it's around 80%. The main reason people don't register their car is that they can't afford the fee and the sales tax. If you can't pay that, you probably haven't paid for insurance yet, either.

2. Not really sure. I think that's a unique number, that traces back to the dealer, and from there to the buyer.

Anonymous said...

I suspect that it's the dealer license number, because I just found a list of NE state dealer license numbersat a DMV sub-site. Click the "list of dealers" link on that page for the list. You could probably use that number and the car make/model and date to easily find the owner's ID (assuming the tags aren't fabricated or stolen).