NEW YORK [CBS] — The numbers could be enough to drive someone to drink.
New York City police made nearly 10,000 drunken-driving arrests last year, but of the more than 6,000 cases that have gone through the courts so far, only 187 offenders have landed behind bars. That's according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Report: Few NYC Drunken Drivers Do Jail Time
NEW YORK [CBS] — The numbers could be enough to drive someone to drink.
New York City police made nearly 10,000 drunken-driving arrests last year, but of the more than 6,000 cases that have gone through the courts so far, only 187 offenders have landed behind bars. That’s according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Manhattan judges handed out the most lenient sentences among the five boroughs, with only 28, or 2.5 percent, of the 1,091 convicted offenders getting jail time. The borough’s conviction rate for drunken drivers over the last three years was 75 percent, also the city’s worst.
The state’s conviction rate for the past three years was nearly 96 percent.
The NYPD is currently the second largest police force in the United States.
yankel de shiker
what lesson do we learn here? If you wanna drink and drive, make sure its in Manhattan!
Boruch N. Hoffinger
BS”D
In Eretz Yisroel, Shimon Peres wanted to determine why the auto accident rate was so high in Eretz Yisroel.
After investigating he found that judges were lenient and did’t exercise the full power of the law.
‘Bnei Rachamim’ shouldn’t be careful with their ‘midot.’ Being kind to the (Possibly) irresponsible might end up in a terrible tragedy (ies).