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California Highway Patrol arrests are half what they were in 1990.
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Drunk driving–An article in the California section Tuesday about a decline in drunk driving contained figures that were mischaracterized by the Los Angeles Police Department. Accidents, not arrests, declined from 3,744 in 1993 to 2,758 in 2000. Arrests also dropped, from 15,671 in 1993 to 11,262 in 2000. The number of drivers in California has increased with the state’s population. In 1990, the state had about 30 million people and 19.9 million licensed drivers, according to the CHP. In 1999, the population was 34 million, with about 21 million licensed drivers. Over the same period, Californians also drove more, from 259 billion miles in 1990 to more than 300 billion miles in 1999. Although the problem of drunk driving has hardly disappeared, the long-term drop in CHP arrests has been dramatic. The agency cited twice as many people for driving under the influence in 1990 as it did last year. |
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