Adequate funding is needed to ensure that impaired driving legislation ultimately accomplishes its intended goals. This brochure from the Working Group on DWI System Improvements illustrates how the level of available funding for the drunk driving problem in past decades has directly affected the problem and, in part, limited progress in reducing fatalities and injuries. It describes the importance not only of sufficient funding but the proper allocation of such funds to ensure that impaired driving initiatives are properly implemented and that they deliver the promised results. In addition, it contains recommendations to help agencies locate sources of funding and protect current funding, increase their bargaining power, and identify and facilitate access to previously untapped resources. (Author/publisher)
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