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Police Writing DUI Arrest Reports?Before the Arrest

By Lawrence Taylor

In recent years, there has been a growing trend among law enforcement to use pre-written arrest reports in drunk driving cases. In other words, they are writing out a batch of phony reports — including "observed" driving symptoms, slurred speech, failed field sobriety tests, admissions of drinking — and then just filling in the names, dates, etc., when they actually make an arrest. Saves a lot of time. In this computer age, however, this practice is commonly abbreviated even further by using computer templates: word processing forms which have all of the "facts" already entered, with blanks to fill in for name, date, etc.  And this has been going on for some time now, as the following news story from a few years ago shows:   DUI Suspects May Go Free Due To Questionable Arrest Reports Orlando, FL...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on July 04, 2010 (boomark / email).