Across North Carolina, police are charging a rapidly increasing number - and a disproportionate share - of Hispanics with drunken driving. Authorities charged 10,852 Hispanics with driving while impaired last year, about 12.3 percent of the 87,781 drunken driving arrests made around the state, according to records obtained from the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts. Six years ago, only 819 Hispanics were charged with DWI. Census records show that Hispanics comprise 4.7 percent of the

Source : nl.newsbank.com

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