Those of us who are middle-aged and older remember when cops would usually cut you a break if you were pulled over and were drunk, except if you really screwed up badly or had an attitude. Now, DUI is big business and police are important revenue raisers for the government, plus the system likes nothing better than to get as many Whites involved in the legal system as possible given how disproportionately crimes are committed by the magical race.
Soooo
freaking true. When I was a kid in the 70's, one of my friend's parents, sometimes with a couple of their friends or other relatives, would pick us up at a movie theater after seeing a movie on a Saturday afternoon (all of them good, no PC or other Cult Marx programming in them...good writing, acting, action, et al), and all of them with an open bottle of beer and a decent buzz, but never sh*tfaced. They understood their limitations and never passed them. They took no precautions to really hide their bottles because the cops (nor anyone else) really cared.
My friend, brother and I would jump in the back of their El Camino and they would drive off. No one gave a flying sh*t, not even the police. His parents were blue collar folks that worked hard during the week and played hard during the weekends but were otherwise strict with their son and other children and demanded accountability. Heck even the part of us just jumping into the back of an open bed of an El Camino would cause CPS to get called today and for us to be placed in a government-sponsored foster home.
Ahh, the last vestiges of America 1.0 in the American Midwest. RIP, circa 1982. But even after that, I was busted a couple of times with a case of beer in the car, once as a driver with other minors in the car and once as a minor in a car with other minors. The first one, the cop just warned me to get out of his area...
"I better not see you in my area again tonight.". The second time, other patrol units were called to the park, but they just made us open up all of the cans and pour them out directly on the parking lot cement. Ha! Then they let us go. That was the mid-to-late 80's. Now, it would be a major deal with a serious risk to current or future employment. It's a very narrow line now. All that being said, I certainly don't condone drunk driving, but nowadays you can get a DUI for drinking just one glass of wine.
Here's a take from Bill Hicks on the same subject circa 1990, beginning around the 00:41 mark, he nails it: