The city council of Kansas City, Missouri has entered into a contract with an Arizona company to have red light cameras installed at 12 intersections in KCMO. You can bet that when the money from those starts rolling in they will install more. I woul
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There is another article about the ancillary costs of getting convicted of a DUI at MSN Money Central. You may have seen my earlier blogs here and here on this issue. Apparently, the word is getting out that a DUI is no longer a traffic ticket that a
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The Overland Park Police, in conjuntion with other agencies, ran a DUI checklane on April 18, 2008. 466 vehicles were stopped and 11 people were arrested for DUI. That is about 2.4%. That means 455 vehicles were stopped and delayed for no reason. Int
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Here is a somwhat funny video addressing what a DUI will cost, at least as far as the state of Texas goes. The numbers aren’t far off from Kansas, though, if you lose. I blogged about this before recently. Suffice it to say, a Kansas DUI convic
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A bill being discussed this week in the Kansas legislature would mandate that persons convicted of a 4th time DUI in Kansas be sent to a special DUI prison for 18 MONTHS! If they are good they might be able to get out after 12 months. Holy moly. As I
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This disturbing story from Tampa, Florida is typical of the hysteria surrounding DUI cases these days. A man was driving himself to the walk-in doctor’s clinic because he was so ill with pneumonia. On the way there he was stopped by law enforce
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The Overland Park , Kansas, Police Department is planning a DUI Saturation Patrol on Friday, March 14, 2008. I guess it is that time of year again. I am sure there will be many checklanes to follow. However, a saturation patrol means that there will
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