| WHEREAS: |
Each year drunk and drugged driving
leads to one death every 30 minutes, one injury every two minutes
and 1.5 million arrests nationally; and |
| WHEREAS: |
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) has sponsored the You
Drink & Drive.
You Lose. National Crackdown to combat
this social and criminal national priority; and |
| WHEREAS: |
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality
of sobriety checkpoints in 1990; moreover the decision held
that the interest in reducing alcohol-impaired driving was
sufficient to justify the brief intrusion of a properly conducted
sobriety checkpoint; and |
| WHEREAS: |
Sobriety checkpoints are proven to reduce
impaired driving crashes both by removing impaired drivers
from the road as well as deterring others from attempting to
drive, and thereby lessen the hazards to innocent people; and
|
| WHEREAS: |
The (ORGANIZATION) of (INSERT
YOUR CITY/STATE/COUNTY NAME) considers its duty to protect our citizens from hazards
such as impaired drivers of the highest priority; therefore
be it |
| RESOLVED: |
That the (CITY/COUNTY) of (COUNTY/
STATE) hereby proclaims support for the You Drink & Drive. You
Lose. National Crackdown during (INSERT
DATES); and, hereby
proclaims support for the use of sobriety checkpoints as a
valuable weapon in the battle against impaired driving and
protecting our citizens. |