El Paso Police Department has made considerable progress over the past decade in reducing deaths and injuries due to alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. Government statistics show that about 29% fewer people died in alcohol-related crashes in 1996 as in 1986. Yet improvements in the alcohol-related crash fatality rate have been flat for the past several years, and the mortality and morbidity associated with such crashes remain at unacceptably high levels. In particular, young people are still at high risk for dying in fatal alcohol-related crashes.

Research indicates that most of these deaths and injuries could be prevented through a combination of more effective community policies, enhanced local enforcemen

Different agencies like MADD and ELPD have permanent programs against drunk driving, however these programs not always work as they should, and also some of these programs violate the constitutional rights of the individuals.As far as I know there is any law that prohibits underage citizens to cross the border after nine o’clock at the night. A year ago El Paso police department implement a program that prohibited underage U.S. citizens to cross the border after nine o’clock in the night through the Santa Fe Bridge in order to prevent them to drink in the very known Juarez Avenue. That program looked like a very good program, actually It was very good program however in my opinion and other people opinion it was not legal, because El Paso Police Department has no the power to do that and as far as I know there is no law that prohibits underage citizens two cross after certain hour. They also sponsor different activities like visiting schools, radio campaigns and billboards. All of these actions have been proven effective. Nevertheless some of them are more effective like other.

The most important preventive action than can be taken in order to prevent drinking and driving in El Paso and any other city involves families as its main assets but the authorities has to help them . One of the solutions could be implement a Program where customs will detected underage under the influence of the alcohol at the bridges and stop them at that location. They will call their parents, so in that way they will prevent them to crash or having any other accident. that would have fatal consequences either human or material. When I was working at Walt Disney World , they implement a program to prevent their guest to drive under influence from P.I. (a big place in Disney where the Bars are located) to the hote

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