Showing photographs from a drunken-driving "wall of shame" -- as County Executive Thomas Suozzi called the mug shots displayed behind him -- Nassau officials announced that police had charged 109 people with intoxicated driving during the Memorial Day weekend.
Stepped up enforcement of drunken driving came after officials had promised that twice as many police as last year would patrol the county's roadways over the holiday weekend. Sixteen of the arrests came after car accidents, including one that resulted in a serious injury.
The arrests marked a 51 percent increase over roughly the same period last year, when 72 people were arrested, officials said.
And in an unabashed effort to shame those charged, the names and addresses of the suspects were itemized and distributed to the media; the mugshots of the 81 people charged with driving while intoxicated were to be posted on the county government's Web site, Suozzi and police said. Twenty-eight of those arrested were charged with driving while ability impaired, a lesser offense.
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