| In Utah, even if you don't get arrested for drunk driving | | | | woman's car in February. Pressley and four others |
| you might still have to call your mom from jail — sort | | | | have been suspended with pay pending an |
| of. The Utah Highway Patrol and some local bars hope | | | | investigation after video of the accident and the |
| letting people practice an uncomfortable call from the | | | | officers' attempt to cover it up became public last |
| local lockup will help dissuade drinking and driving. A | | | | week, the latest Internet sensation in a line of unsettling |
| phone number has been set up to recreate what it | | | | police dash cam videos. On the video, the officers, with |
| would feel like to make such a call. After dialing | | | | calculating authority, are heard laughing about how |
| 1-877-JAIL-FON, the caller is given the option to talk to | | | | drunk 23-year-old Alexandra Torrens-Vilas is and how |
| a hysterical mother or a disapproving father, among | | | | they plan to "hang her out to dry" so the officer that hit |
| others. A prerecorded message then plays one end of | | | | her car doesn't get in trouble. "I'm gonna tell you |
| what the conversation might sound like, with the caller | | | | exactly how to word this so we can get him off the |
| filling in the other half. Slogans associated with the | | | | hook," Pressley says on the video. Later he remarks: "I |
| campaign include "Getting a DUI is easy, calling your | | | | don't like making things up ever because it's wrong but |
| mom from jail is hard." | | | | if I have to bend it a little to protect a cop I'm gonna." In |
| Methods like this seem to be having a much great | | | | the report, Pressley wrote Vilas got in the left lane and |
| impact than the recent harsh legal punishment coming | | | | slammed on the brakes and blamed her for the |
| from states like Arizona. While most states are more | | | | accident. |
| interested in safety for there tax paying citizens, states | | | | While we continue this full front money war with the |
| like Arizona are becoming cash hungry giants. With | | | | local politicians, it’s time we start thinking outside the |
| photo radar in the same branch, recently things have | | | | box. While stealing millions of dollars from citizens |
| gotten out of control in these areas. From false dui | | | | seems like the simple way, why not get these |
| arrests to dirty cops, it doesn’t seem like Arizona is | | | | offenders involved in the community with some |
| interested in the safety of it’s people, but more the | | | | community service hours. In these harsh economical |
| cash it generates. Veteran Hollywood Police Officer | | | | times most people just simply don’t have the |
| Dewey Pressley said he hated lying. But if bending the | | | | money to pay. Instead of forcing bankruptcy, house |
| truth a little would keep a fellow officer out of trouble, | | | | lose, job loss, and scrounging for food, why not just |
| well, he was all for it. A dashboard police camera | | | | give dui offenders a great amount of hours, getting |
| video that surfaced recently showed an officer | | | | them out of their usual drinking habits. This way |
| chuckling as he wrote a fake police report, calling his | | | | offender’s are receiving harsh rehabilitation, not |
| creativity "a little Walt Disney" so another officer | | | | harsh legal punishment. |
| wouldn't get in trouble for rear-ending a 23-year-old | | | | |