According to the ABA Journal, software originally designed to assist in determining whether or not serious felony offenders are likely to re-offend is being modified for use in less serious crimes. This may even include crimes like drunk driving.
The article suggests that the software can be used for less series crimes as part of the sentencing process but other software can apparently be used to predict where and when crime will occur.
Is it really possible that software could be used to determine when and even if a Michigan driver will commit the offense of OWI? One never knows, but considering how fast technology has developed it would be foolhardy to completely rule this out.
Consider this 1994 episode of “Homicide: Life on the Streets.” Here Detective Munch is predicting the future. Funny thing is everything that just 16 years ago seemed amazing or even impossible has now become common practice.
I wonder if one of the detectives from the new television crime series Detroit1-8-7 will soon be heard predicting the technology driven demise of the Michigan drunk driver.
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Patrick T. Barone is the author on two books on DUI defense including the well respected two volume treatise Defending Drinking Drivers (James Publishing), and The DUI Book – A Citizen’s Guide to Understanding DUI Litigation in America. He is also the author of a monthly DUI defense column for the Criminal Defense Newsletter, published by Michigan’s State Appellate Defender’s Office. Mr. Barone is an adjunct professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he teaches Drunk Driving Law and Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Criminal Defense Attorney’s of Michigan’s Trial Lawyer’s College where he provides trial skills training to Michigan’s criminal defense practitioners. Mr. Barone lectures nationally on various DUI defense topics, and he has appeared in newspapers, on television and on radio as a drunk driving defense expert. Mr. Barone has been certified as an instructor and practitioner of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and has also attended a 24-hour certification course at National Patent Analytical Corporation (the manufacturer of the DataMaster) and has thereby been deemed competent by the manufacturer to operate, perform essential diagnostic verifications and calibration checks on the DataMaster. Mr. Barone is a Sustaining Member of College for DUI Defense. Mr. Barone is the principal and founding member of The Barone Defense Firm, whose practice is limited exclusively to defending drinking drivers. The Firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan.
