DUI - Should they go to jail or...?

Suspend the license and impound the car. When they get their license back it has to be marked with "DUI Offender" as well as the license plate. They have to pay all the storage and transportation fees while the vehicle was in impound.

They can find their own way to work, Public transit, friends, family, etc. There is no excuse. Repeat offenses is indefinite loss of license, prison time, as well as forfeiture of all vehicles and inability to ever purchase or register a vehicle in the US. Vehicles will be sold at auction and money will be given to the offender.

The fact that the vehicle belongs to a spouse or someone else should hold bearing on the person so that they do not drink and drive. It's not the officials punishing their spouse, it is the one who committed the crime who brought it upon them.

relies upon on the place you're. In my state, the crime would be taken care of as a customary DUI, yet while the decide imposes sentence he will have your checklist and could understand which you hand yet another DUI that became decreased. In my state, and DUI can arise to 6 months in penitentiary. In my city, the in all possibility result could be approximately 10 days in penitentiary for a customary DUI with a background of a reckless driving conviction.

Really the problem isn't the car because people who commit crimes while drunk have alcohol to thank. So I think that there should be a prohibition for people who cannot control themselves with the substance. 1st DUI? Probation in which you don't get to touch alcohol for a determined amount of time. 2nd? No more alcohol ever. In which then you can bring in possession charges if they do drink.

Then again we have a hard enough time dealing with illegal drugs so I'm sure no matter what the solution there's always a loop hole or failing point...

What if the car belongs to the spouse? Is it still fair? I like the fact that you are trying to make the world better, but in the end the guilty will find a way. There are too many variables in taking possession of the vehicle. Trust me most drug seized vehicles are sold right back to the dealer after paying a fine. The sad thing is habitual offenders don't care who they hurt it is all about them and all about the "Right now." They would take their grandma's car to the bar the moment she fell asleep and then if caught wouldn't care if there was a law stating her car belonged to the city under some law. In the end we would only hurt grandma and six months later "Drunky" would get a DUI in his girlfriends car.

Sawyer's right. We'll be paying for their welfare and even be paying for the time they sit in prison... *rolls eyes* This country is far too messed up, but I like the idea. I mean, if they can't follow the rules, they don't deserve to drive. Besides, they can take the bus or walk, so it's not like they'd be completely unable to work (though most people out to get a DUI don't really give a crap about work in the first place. They're content to live in the world Democrats deem "perfect," in which our money goes to them for no good reason. All that "share the wealth" bs. >.<)

DUI carries stiff finds even on the first offense. It gets stiffer as you accumulate more offenses. If you kill or injure someone while DWI it is even worse. I think it will be a problem until we recognize it is not only against the law, but is a disease. Our jails and prisons need to do more to rehabilitate the offender to become a productive part of society. This could be accomplished by making them visit victims of drunk driving accidents, counseling, and training them in a vocation they can use when they get out. I understand this can not be done with our overcrowded jails and prisons, because we have over crowding due to illegals, marijuana and other bull crap! Taking their car is not gonna do anything but keep them from working. Let's clean out our jails and prisons of all the illegals, and send them home to be a burden to their country!!! Then we will have more funds to rehabilitate our own.

In Canada, Police are now going after vehicles belonging to repeat Impaired driving offenders under the proceeds of crime act.

While it is not obtained through crime, it is used in the commission of the offence itself.

It does not happen often, but is starting to catch on. And it only applies to repeat offenders.

Items seized under proceeds of crime are auctioned off.

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to clarify, I am not talking first offence, or even second offence.

We have one guy in this province who was charged with his 23 impaired driving offences after striking a family in a vehicle broken down on the side of the highway. The most jail time he can get is 5 years unless he kills someone.

They are trying to have him declared a dangerous offender so he can get more time, but why not take his vehicle.

I think thats a little over board. When they go to jail they are charged for every day they are in there so when they get out not only do they have to go to DUI classes and pay those fines but they also have to pay the jail's fees. I understand your point but I think its a little much. What if a man gets a DUI and the police sell his vehicle and then his wife has no transportation for their kids and work.

most vehicles are owned by a couple. no point in punishing the spouse of a dui driver. plus once we allow the government the power to seize property where do you think that would stop?

Selling property is a little Totalitarian.

Besides what if the offender is driving someone else's car?