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<blockquote data-quote="Crosstimbers Okie" data-source="post: 2666932" data-attributes="member: 760">My how times change. Back in my days of drinking &amp; driving, the early 1980s, the officers were hired to use good judgement. They would make a judgement call on whether a person was too impaired to be safe or not. If they didn&#039;t pass the test, then into cuffs they went. Myself, I never went into cuffs. And I never had an accident or damaged anyone&#039;s property. Between 1981 and 1985 I was pulled over more than a dozen times in central Oklahoma by OHP, Shawnee PD, &amp; Mustang PD. My driving &amp; arrest records are clean except for two speeding tickets in 2006 and 2014...Back when the world was reasonable, in Oklahoma anyway, cops didn&#039;t bother you unless you were a dirtbag or legitimately endangering the public. They let you live your life. Judgement was the coin of their realm. They had limited resources and were expected to manage them wisely. Sure, they would pull you over if they could articulate Probable Cause and check you out for real criminal activity. But they were not Nazis working for MADD &amp; similar totalitarian groups to impose &#039;virtue&#039; on every 20 year old.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crosstimbers Okie, post: 2666932, member: 760"] My how times change. Back in my days of drinking & driving, the early 1980s, the officers were hired to use good judgement. They would make a judgement call on whether a person was too impaired to be safe or not. If they didn't pass the test, then into cuffs they went. Myself, I never went into cuffs. And I never had an accident or damaged anyone's property. Between 1981 and 1985 I was pulled over more than a dozen times in central Oklahoma by OHP, Shawnee PD, & Mustang PD. My driving & arrest records are clean except for two speeding tickets in 2006 and 2014... Back when the world was reasonable, in Oklahoma anyway, cops didn't bother you unless you were a dirtbag or legitimately endangering the public. They let you live your life. Judgement was the coin of their realm. They had limited resources and were expected to manage them wisely. Sure, they would pull you over if they could articulate Probable Cause and check you out for real criminal activity. But they were not Nazis working for MADD & similar totalitarian groups to impose 'virtue' on every 20 year old. [/QUOTE]

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