Millennials Are Killing Not Being Killed By Drunk Drivers

MIAMI HERALD – In South Florida, clubs are open late, booze flows freely and the public transportation system leaves a lot to be desired. But the number of drunk drivers on the road appears to be going down.

In the past four years, DUI arrests made by Miami-Dade’s two largest police departments have plummeted. In Miami-Dade, the largest police department in the Southeastern U.S., arrests were down a staggering 65 percent in 2017 from four years earlier. Miami-Dade police arrested more than 1,500 people each year from 2013 through 2015. Only 594 were arrested on the same charge last year.

Miami’s numbers weren’t quite as eye-popping, though they also declined a lot. Miami police arrested 461 people on DUI charges in 2013. By 2015, the number dropped to 321 and has leveled off since — a 31 percent decrease.

Mama there goes that man again.  Millennials strike again to ruin yet another booming industry – people being killed from drunk driving and by drunk drivers.   Millennials putting DUI defense lawyers out of business.  Millennials putting morticians in the poor house.  Millennials sending funeral directors into poverty.  The streets are lined with homeless coroners, the junkyards are littered with emptied out and gutted hearses.  Not enough work to go around now that the drunk driver market has dried up.  And let’s not forget about the unintended collateral damage, the taxi drivers.

Some of the credit probably goes to the rise of ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft. Their increasing popularity coincided almost directly with the drop in DUI arrests.

A decades-long run of being rude, driving like assholes, not turning their A/C on for you, having their light on but telling you they’re “not going in your direction” while it’s pouring rain on your head, stinky food spilled all over the front seats – all of it vanishing because of the free-market competition of a better service provided.   It’s really just a disaster all around.  So just think about that.  While life is improving for you, because you’re not dying, remember it’s not a victimless development.  Real people are being hurt. And you can thank the millennials for that.

Other factors also play in, say those who track the numbers. Some attribute the drop-off to a more educated public. Others point to more pro-active law enforcement and a trendy distaste for driving by the millennial generation.

Fucking hate education and proactive law enforcement.