DPD Says It Arrested 31 Drunk Drivers Over the Long New Year's Holiday Weekend

• Three days, New Year's weekend, and only 31 drunks?  What did they do, apply a variation of the new shoplifting arrest standard?  You don't get arrested unless you blow .15?

• A good enough reason not to drink in Fort Worth really you will be posting those who got arrested before they are found guilty by a court of law, now I know why I hate fort worth......

• In a free market paradise like Texas, an entrepreneurial type would see the need for cab volume during certain times of the day/year and find a free-market solution that would not only help people get home but also make a little money for people to reinject into the local economy. If only we lived in a regulation-free, business friendly environment like they do in Texas. I assume that when the city voted to massively cut the number of cabs operating at D/FW a few years ago (over 2,300 down to 800) that bled into the number of cabs available on any given New Year's, too.

• That's fcking ridiculous! We were trying to arrange cab service for Halloween this past year and it was literally impossible to find a cab company to pick us up and drop us off since it was a holiday weekend. It should be easier to get home safely after drinking in this city.

• there was a serious barrage in my neighborhood with some big caliber stuff.

• I asked, but the media ops at DPD are closed for the holiday. Hope to have those numbers tomorrow.

• you'd think with that load of pesky shoplifters of their backs...

• only 31? how many did they arrest for gunfire?

• So saturday night, I drove to a bar around 530 pm.  I had a reservation/appointment for a taxi to pick my wife and I up at 1 am.  shortly after 830, there was an altercation that happened in the bar. I decided to stop drinking, which turned out to be a good thing.  We stayed at the bar until 1 am, when I began wondering where my cab was.  I called and they said, we are working on gettin a cab dispatched, it might be an hour and half or more before we get to you at which point I said eff it, and drove home.  Its stupid shit like this situation that irks me about cabs in DFW.  This isnt the first time its happened to me, less than 3 months ago, I had a cab company tell me after I waited 2.5 hrs that they decided they were not dispatching a cab to south arlington for an in-city pick up.  the dispatcher literally said, if you are sober enough to be calling me at 2 am, you should just drive home.  Thank goodness that night I had a sober friend willing to drive at that time of the night 

• I have been subjected to field sobriety tests when I hadn't had anything to drink at all (nor any drugs). I guess they just get bored and lonely sometimes.

• Statewide, less than half of those arrested for DWI will ultimately be convicted of DWI. Maybe the public "shaming" should wait until prosecutors actually prove their cases (and, if statewide statistics hold in these cases, the arrests this weekend will only result in 13.5 DWI convictions).

• The most loaded question in the history of loaded questions...Have you been drinking today, if you lie and say no, they ask you to step out of the  car, and if you tell the truth, they dont believe you. How many cops truly believe you if you say one beer with dinner.  That all leads to an hour of field sobriety tests and a breathalyzer.

• okay that would explain no postings over on City of Ate today

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