Editorial: Welcome change to Bexar’s Take Responsibility program

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Editorial: Welcome change to Bexar’s Take Responsibility program
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We applaud the district attorney's pledge to restore the program’s original guidelines “without exception.”

Drunk driving is a blight on this community. Here, police respond in 2021 to a crash involving two suspected drunk drivers.to Bexar County’s Take Responsibility program, which has allowed thousands of drunken drivers to avoid responsibility.

But an Express-News investigation in November revealed how these rules were quickly discarded. The loosened standards began under Reed but continued under her successor, Nico LaHood, and then Gonzales, who defeated LaHood in 2019. Gonzales was recently re-elected to a second, four-year term. “For a first-time offender, punishment can have diminishing returns,” he wrote. “With obstruction or DWI, the consequences are heavy, but an obstruction plea may allow offenders to keep their job. That person may be less likely to offend as a result.”

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