Which is truly the situation here. Under the new policy, drivers who are found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.10 or above can have their cars taken from them at the moment of arrest. It certainly does. If a police officer stops a driver who it turns out is stinking drunk, that driver's car should be taken away for the good of the public, just the same as a gun should be taken away from a person suspected of just having shot someone. One of the bedrocks of our nation's system of jurisprudence is the tenet that no person should be punished before being given a chance to defend himself or herself before a judge.
Police officers can be mistaken, intoxication tests can be faulty.
Yes, the drivers who are arrested and charged with drunken driving will be inconvenienced and upset when their cars are taken. You won't find the answer to this in a political debate between Giuliani and the heads of the civil liberties groups. You won't find the answer on the cable shout shows. And you won't find the answer here. Because there is no correct answer.