The job is all about discretion.They absolutely 100% are about money.
Example:
I have a very good friend that owns his own construction company. One day last summer he was driving home from a job he has been working on for several months.
He was pulled over by local law enforcement and when the cop walked up to his car, after asking for the dl and registration etc...he asked my friend to get out of his car since he said he smelled alcohol. My friend admitted he had a few beers earlier that day at a late lunch, he's not much of a drinker for the record.
The cop started to adminster the drunk test, touch your nose, etc...when another cop rolled up and said "hey we gotta go we have another cal, blah, blah, blah"
The cop now smacked his drivers license & registration back into my buddy's chest and said "get out of here".
So you tell me, if a DUI stop is really about safety, why would you let one loose?
If an officer chooses to do field sobriety on you he is observing you from the time he first makes contact with you. I'm sure the officer observed your buddy while he was talking to him, observed him exit the car, walk back to him and obviously when he started to give field sobriety testing. I'm guessing the officer felt comfortable enough to let your buddy continue on home based on his observations of your friend, and due to an in progress call he needed to respond to. If your friend was trashed off his ass the officer wouldn't have let him leave behind the wheel, as there are other options when there is no time for a DUI.
If you're going to make an outlandish claim that DUI's are 100% about money, you're going to have to use a better example. Better yet, join a PD, put a couple years in, which should be more than enough time for you to experience your first gruesome DUI related accident, scoop some formerly human meat off the pavement, have to sack up and explain to the deceased's next of kin what happened, and then get back to me.
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