He had been arrested for drunk driving multiple times before, and at the time he hit Cari, he was already out on bail for a previous hit-and-run, also while drunk. Within months, she and a small group of other mothers who had lost children the same way founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving. None of that happened simply because the federal government identified drunk driving as a priority and assigned a task force to solve it. Dr. Raymond E. Barranco is professor of sociology at Mississippi State University. Dr. Barranco invites readers to send feedback and sociology-related questions you’d like him to address in this space to [email protected].