Frustrated police north of Toronto have tried and tried to curb drinking and driving and yet the number of impaired motorists they catch rises every year. Out of desperation over frightful carnage on York Region’s roads, police have turned to one of humanity’s oldest forms of community policing: the name-and-shame game.
York Regional Police joined some other police forces this week in a policy change to publicly release the name and age of all motorists criminally charged with impaired driving.
The force shies away from calling it a name-and-shame campaign but accepts the new policy aims to use humiliation as a route to compliance.
“The purpose is deterrence,” said Const. Andy Pattenden, a York police spokesman.
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