"Not sure I go along with this, but it would have been a huge favor to some people I know to have been busted in a bar before they ever got behind the wheel."
Why should our freedoms be taken away because you have stupid and irresponsible friends? Catch them drunk driving (not merely some subjective under the influence) but drunk driving and send them away a long long long time the very first time...because the first time in many cases is merely the first time caught.
You can't impute imagined prior transgression. Most criminals would fit your profile.
"Your honor, technically this is a first offense since this is the first time we caught him but this burglar probably burgled before though we have no proof."
I'll add you to the list even though you are no friend.
I never said I agreed with it, nor that I had friends who would have benefited. It was just an observation.