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Originally Posted by Shoonra
By the way, your particular questions do have answers. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers got its start when the mother of a girl killed by a drunk driver sued the local police for something akin to dereliction of duty; they had stopped this particular drunk driver ... and, knowing he was unfit to drive, let him get back behind the wheel and allowed him to drive off, only minutes before he killed her daughter. As the police had a specific duty to keep some they knew to be drunk from driving, she sued them and, I think, won a hefty amount.
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the drunk driver also violated someone elses fourth and fifth ammendment rights therefore she had every right to sue for a "real crime."