Pubdate: Sun, 30 Jan 2005
Source: Norman Transcript (OK)
Copyright: 2005 The Norman Transcript
Contact:  http://www.normantranscript.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/552
Author: Howard J. Wooldridge

GO AFTER DEADLY DUI's

Editor, The Transcript:

Your headline trumpets 100 marijuana plants seized on one day. The
next day Chief Cotten laments that drunk drivers killed five citizens
last year. In the Chief's report I did not read that marijuana use had
caused any deaths.

As a retired police officer, I know that if the Norman police would
focus on the deadly threat of drunk drivers, death and injury caused
by DUIs would go down. The Transcript could help by recognizing Norman
officers who arrest two or more DUIs on one shift. Publicize their
life-saving efforts. Put meaningless, public-safety reducing marijuana
busts on the back page where they belong.

Howard J. Wooldridge, (retired)

Media Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,

Norman
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