Manenough

A question that is often posed among citizens and legislators is how do we deal with the habitual drunk driver who has too many convictions on their record.  The habitual DUI offender can be a nightmare for any city and state. While numerous states now have laws that allow a vehicle to be impounded if used in a specific crime, there seems to be new legislation on the horizon that is allowing states to destroy vehicles used by habitual DUI, DWI and traffic offenders. On February 12, 2008 a Colorado man had to witness his car being crushed for violating the Colorado Habitual Traffic Offender Statute. So the question is, should the state have the ability to destroy individual’s private property based upon a horrific driving record? Should this new legislation be the way we deal with habitual DUI and DWI offenders? If this becomes common with Colorado DUI laws for example, how do we know if this affects the actual problem? On one hand, the removal of personal property doesn’t seem to get to the root of the problem. But on the other hand, it might make it that much harder to get access to a vehicle. Of coarse, there’s always jail.