DWI enforcement varies across the St. Louis region

BY JOE MAHR, JEREMY KOHLER • jkohler@post-dispatch.com
AND BRIAN WILLIAMSON • bwilliamson@post-dispatch.com | Posted: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:20 pm

The public service ads tout the basic theme: You drink. You drive. You lose. But that’s often not the case in metro St. Louis. Lenient plea deals, secrecy laws and outright mistakes have allowed most DWI offenders — including many chronic offenders — to avoid serious punishment — in a system-wide breakdown that has claimed lives in Missouri and Illinois. Explore this map of the municipalities in St. Louis County, Jefferson County and St. Charles counties and see which cities have the best and worst enforcement records.

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Posted in Local, State-and-regional, News, Multimedia on Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:20 pm Updated: 10:15 pm. | Tags: Dwi, Dodging Dwis, Joe Mahr, Jeremy Kohler, Brian Williamson, Map, St. Louis, Jefferson County, St. Charles County,