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Southeastern Highway Patrols Gear-Up for Holiday Constitutional Violations

By Adam Levin, Benjamin Goldberg, and Garrett Nail

Georgia and several other bordering states are participating  in Hands Across the Border, a DUI enforcement project, which runs for the six days leading up to the Labor Day weekend and coincides with other DUI enforcement projects (e.g. Operation Zero Tolerance).  The driving force behind the project would seem to be the  deterrence of  impaired driving. Yet the 2004 Hands Across the Border report for Georgia (the most recent one available to me), lists the program as "a tremendous success" with a mere 16 DUI arrests in the entire Georgia portion of the program and no stats on how many were ultimately convicted.   The Georgia Department of Motor Vehicle Safety predicted 19 deaths for the 2004 Labor Day Holiday period, but only 13 deaths actually occurred...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern Criminal Law and Justice on August 26, 2007 (boomark / email).