Does David Levinson not realize people can get in their cars and drive drunk at any hour of the day? Maybe not en masse as they do at 2 a/m, but you can find a drunk on the road at any time. Legal public drinking hours are currently 6 a/m to 2 a/m, but, if you've already bought it, you have it at home, you're free to be drunk any time of the day you choose, and may make the stupid, potentially fatal, decision to drive in that condition at any time.

I'm going to go with the basic question: Why do people need more time to drink?

@2: The idea isn't so much to give people more time to drink; it's to stop turning all the drunks out on the street simultaneously.

Spent many years closing bars from Golden Bear in Tacoma to Cafe AZ in federal way to Dino's in Seattle.

Bars that close and bars that stop serving are one thing as Five points gos from bar to food.

We see the police behind this as they want to sweep a city in an orderly manner to move from west side to east side to have more units on hand in the area that is stopping to serve drinks.

So one month sweep east to west and the next west to east to keep it fair?

Like all of Seattle's B/S I find the description
sounds good but I would bet large amounts of money that the city and police would use it as a tool for rewards and punishment and the Drunks on the road would not be the focus as it has not been for decades and decades of ignorant drunk Washington drivers.

Many states have a no tolerance policy for drunk drivers or Bars who serve up a bunch of drunk drivers and it helps a bunch to have a wicked punishment for all involved.

Like I tell all the young wanna be Desperado gangsters who want to defecate where they eat "If you commit a crime the government will commit a crime on you" This rule should apply to all and not to just the people the police and polittypiggys have prejudiced against.

As many improvements of resent and more focus on this problem has been given in the past few years I'm wondering how this "City Police issue" pans out as it implies that "Seattle" has a problem with drunk drivers and the problem is all over the city to the point the police need to be every where at 2AM.

Okay, #4, if it's not ahout later hours, then how about we have some bars close at 11 p.m., others at midnight, others at 1 a.m., and others at 2 a.m.?

Bullshit it's not about later hours. And about McGinn's need to pay off his bar owner campaign donors.

James Keblas, director of the city's Office of Film + Music?

City officials say?
Human Behavior?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbPYoaAi…