DUI plates in Ohio ....... This is just wrong!

I watch a lot of baseball games.They drink a lot of beer at those games.Colleges now are starting to sell beer and wine at games.I always wonder how those folks get home..I don't believe that anyone should drive after they've been drinking,but a lot of folks do..Yes I did it back in my young and stupid days..I'm truly thankful that nothing bad happened..For several reasons I quit alcohol over 40 years ago.I don't miss it at all.

I guess you said it better than I could!  I don't like labeling and I damn sure don't like selective labeling!

What a great concept!

A drunk in a 2 ton vehicle is throwing around a weapon of mass destruction. How would people react if I got drunk and started waving around a pistol on the side of the road. The car has at least as much potential for injuries and death as the pistol. No one I know has been shot, but several killed by drunks dead is dead. Why is being young and stupid, or old and stupid an excuse. Strike 2 and never drive again. People who don't agree probably think they can drive fine after a six pack and haven't lost a family member to a drunk.

America is huge an diverse. The people and the infrastructure, like the land, all change from area to area. Rainforest, desert, plains and more. Drive a bit and you're in a whole new world.

Jaywalking is more of a city thing where one cuts into traffic and not using a crosswalk. Its rarely enforced.

Walking home from a pub/bar isnt as easy either. We are big and spread out.

Jaywalking is only a thing in congested areas, like downtown Houston or NYC. In our area there's no side walks, which is not a problem in our neighborhood, but if someone wants to walk to the closest store 1.5 miles away they are taking their lives in their hands. We have to dodge them all the time. The distances in most of the US make walking impractical. When I lived in the Montrose area of Houston I could safely walk to many bars, restaurants and museums, even the zoo. It's an intermediate area where jaywalking isn't illegal, but pretty stupid. Sidewalks everywhere and pedestrian crossing signals. Motorists are killed every month on the road we have to get on to go anywhere. Ireland is scaled for walking, 99% of the USA isn't.
I love to walk in Downtown Austin, but I was staying in a downtown hotel. Walking in Dublin is a treat.

When we have rain, SE Texas is very green, maybe as green as County Kerry. But much warmer. Coastal Washington is the place you see the speeders chasing the Ewoks in Star Wars. Then there are thousands of square miles of deserts that have their own beauty. As a whole though, Ireland is a much more concentrated beauty and I never saw anything dirty or even in bad repair such as we have everywhere. It's like a different planet.
Even just in Texas we have congested cities, ugly industrial areas, swamps, rivers, peat bogs, mountains, deserts, beaches, prairies, impenetrable woodlands and more. Just my one county in Texas has 3 times the population of Northern Ireland. In this county are lakes, bays, marinas, horses and places to ride them, the world's widest highway, 4 airports, and 5 business districts with skyscrapers. My neighborhood is surrounded by Houston, but borders on several thousand acre wildlife refuge.

Yeah, you would be road kill in Mexico for sure too. Ireland is really unique.

You can get a DUI bicycling in Washington and some other states. Enforcement on drunken boaters has also increased here.

I believe there are states in which a registered sex offender has to somehow introduce or announce themselves to a new neighborhood, and of course they're on a registry for anyone to look up. A colored license plate would be a similar idea.

Then there's the useful fact that it makes it easy for law enforcement to identify a previous drunk driver. Any cop will tell you that if they see a slight indication of a possible DUI, like a small swerve, they'll evaluate for a bit to see if it was a momentary distraction like swatting at a bee, or if there's solid probable cause to make the stop. A colored license plate would make this judgment call a lot easier.

This is an issue that folks probably have different perspectives on, depending on region and previous experience. There are many rural areas of the U.S. where drinking and driving is normalized; a "come on, everyone does it" mentality. That mentality, obviously, kills people... and if you've lost someone because of it, your perspective is a little different. (It's also statistically true that a drunk driver is much more likely to allow themselves distractions like cell phone use.)

In a group that often advocates for the concept of personal responsibility that people claim is being lost today, I'm pretty surprised folks are against this idea. Seems to me, if you commit a crime as dangerous to others as this, the least you should have to do is own it. Anything that works to change the normalization of drinking and driving is probably a good thing. (Of course, if half the cars on the road in your county have the plate, maybe it does the opposite ).

I'm a full believer / witness in the idea that people can change, and I have nothing but respect for people who do. It's just that driving is a privilege and not the right that some regard it as, and I personally think that some mistakes are significant enough that they should follow you around for a bit. Ask anyone who's ever scraped a dead kid off the road while the drunk driver sits in the back of the squad with nary a scratch what THEY think about colored plates...

That would depend on the circumstances like any other other sentence.

In Ohio getting four DUIs in ten years is a felony.

My sister in law got popped twice for DUI. The first time it was the usual pay the fine and attorney fees and attend a class about the dangers of drinking and driving and you're done. Her second offense cost a lot more and she received a set of party plates and she had to have them for a year during her probation period. After that she was allowed her regular plates. A friend of mine went through the same thing. The plates are only used during the probation time and are easier to identify by police and allow them to stop and check to see if the driver is in violation. Both my sister in law and friend have not had a drink since and have been sober at least 10 years.

I dont mind a set amount of time based on a standard set of rules. I had to ask as its an area (DUI plate ID law) I know nothing of and would hate to see it abused.

I wont go into a story of details but I know what drivers under the influence of things can do to others and those that love them. So I have no problem with punishments.