🚀 go-pugleaf

The Police Rodent is a patrol officer,
so he doesn't do high-volume DUI.
But he has been doing it for over ten
years and -unlike Mr. Smith- The DataRat
knows what he's talking about from first-hand
experience !

Most DUI arrests he makes are off of
mundane traffic violations like running a
stop sign or failure to signal a lane change.
Would never know they were impaired
were it not that DataRat routinely asks:  "How
much have you had to drink tonight ?"   Most
DUI drivers DON'T have slurred speech or
smell like a brewery.

All they have to say is "a couple beers", and
the Police Rodent orders them out of their
vehicle for a FST (Field Sobriety Test).

The supposed "universal" indicators of
drunk driving ...weaving and too-fast/too-slow...
happen but are NOT the norm.   Even
when an impaired driver is weaving, it's
rarely weaving between lanes like people
suppose.   If they weave, it's usually weaving
within a lane -rather than between lanes.

After you stop a lot of people for DUI, give
them a FST, then validate your findings with
an Intoxilizer machine, an officer gets a pretty
good idea of what kind of BAC (blood alcohol
content) a subject he encounters may have.

At 0.1 to almost 0.2, they'll NOT weave or go
much above or below the posted speed limit.
You won't be able to tell they're DUI until you've
given them a FST.   At 0.2 thru 0.25, they might
weave within a lane, go too fast or two slow,
but mainly they'll make unsafe lane changes and
other errors in judgment.   Not until above 0.25
do they do the classic stuff like weave between
lanes, drive noticeably too fast or two slow, have
markedly slurred speech, etc.

Most people The DataRat pops for DUI are
right around 0.2 (usually just under).   The second
largest group of such offenders he arrests are
just over 0.1 BAC.   The guys above 0.25 you
usually don't stop, but encounter instead at the
scenes of accidents.

DataRat