It seems like you can’t go 15 feet without hearing about cost-cutting measures. The economy is in the midst of the worst financial downturn in decades, and everyone’s pocketbooks have been hit hard. Thousands of people have lost their jobs, unemployment is up, hundreds of businesses have either closed completely or filed for bankruptcy protection, [...]

The Field Sobriety Test (FST) is a tool which has been in place for decades, specifically designed to help police officers detect whether or not a person is fit to be driving or not. Back in the 70s, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) was interested in the prospect of police officers having [...]

Almost any driver on the road could tell you what field sobriety tests are, and what they are meant to prove. What they might not be able to tell you, though, is that it is hotly contested whether field sobriety tests are an accurate way to determine a driver’s level of intoxication or not. Those [...]

If you have read over the previous few entries, you may find yourself thinking “ok fine, I understand everything that was said, but what are the current Arizona DUI drug laws related to marijuana?” Well, there are several types of states, when it comes to DUIs related to marijuana. While there is no currently accepted [...]

Last year saw an unprecedented jump in the number of DUI Drug arrests, which had been slowly increasing for several years. Most experts attribute the sharp increase in arrests to be due to Arizona’s recent passing of laws regarding medicinal marijuana. The increase brought the issue of DUI drug arrests to the public eye, and [...]

Ever since marijuana came into popular public use, there has been a debate on whether marijuana is safer or more dangerous than alcohol when it comes to its effects on driving. This debate has recently resurfaced with the passing of laws that allow for medicinal marijuana use in Arizona. Most police departments across the country [...]

In recent news, a collision in Phoenix that left 3 injured and caused a young boy’s death, resulted in a DUI arrest. Last week, police report that a teenager who was driving with no license collided head-on with another vehicle in Phoenix, killing one young passenger, and landing the driver in jail. After being treated [...]

In every aspect of life, there are so-called folk remedies for common things, such as being scared to cure the hiccups, or licking the roof of your mouth to cure a brain freeze, and so on. Drinking alcohol is no different. If you were to say to anyone “I’ve been drinking but I need to [...]

Starting this evening and running for roughly the next 24 hours, the Maricopa Police Department will be assisting in the Pinal County Regional DUI task force. According to a department press release, in addition to the Maricopa Police Department, the task force will consist of officers from various police departments throughout the valley, such as [...]

The DUI Enforcement Statistics for 2011 are out, and the report by the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety has some interesting things to say. There have been hundreds of reports of the increasing frequency of Drug DUI arrests, which have been on the rise year-over-year for 9 consecutive years now.  What comes as a [...]